Web search is a challenging task. Previous research mainly exploits texts on the Web pages or link information between the pages, while multimedia information is largely ignored. ...
The importance of supporting keyword searches on relations has been widely recognized. Different from the existing keyword search techniques on relations, this paper focuses on ne...
Desktop search is an important part of personal information management (PIM). However, research in this area has been limited by the lack of shareable test collections, making cum...
Math search is a new area of research with many enabling technologies but also many challenges. Some of the enabling technologies include XML, XPath, XQuery, and MathML. Some of t...
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciļ¬c search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userā...