Ranking microblogs, such as tweets, as search results for a query is challenging, among other things because of the sheer amount of microblogs that are being generated in real time...
More and more RDF data have been published online to be consumed. Ordinary Web users also expect to experience more intelligent services promised by the Semantic Web, such as objec...
Many Web sources provide forms to allow users to query their hidden data. For instance, online stores such as Amazon.com have search interfaces, using which users can query informa...
Relevance evaluation is an essential part of the development and maintenance of information retrieval systems. Yet traditional evaluation approaches have several limitations; in p...
Access to spoken information presents challenges in educational, work, and public settings for many individuals. Speech Recognition technology offers a potential strategy for incre...