Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
Successfully structuring information in databases, OLAP cubes, and XML is a crucial element in managing data nowadays. However this process brought new challenges to usability. It...
Abstract This paper describes efforts to extend educational descriptions of learning objects to enable semantic search for suitable resources held within digital libraries and cybe...
Mark Gahegan, Ritesh Agrawal, Tawan Banchuen, Davi...
This paper presents WordRank, a new page ranking system, which exploits similarity between interconnected pages. WordRank introduces the model of the ‘biased surfer’ which is ...
Finding out about a topic online can be time consuming. It involves visiting multiple news sites, encyclopedia entries, video repositories and other resources while discarding irr...
Francisco Iacobelli, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Bi...