On the desktop, an application can expect to control its user interface down to the last pixel, but on the World Wide Web, a content provider has no control over how the client wi...
Michael Bolin, Matthew Webber, Philip Rha, Tom Wil...
In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...
Today many interactions are carried out online through Web sites and e-services and often private and/or sensitive information is required by service providers. A growing concern r...
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Marco Cremonini, Ernesto...
With this work we aim to make a three-fold contribution. We first address the issue of supporting efficiently queries over string-attributes involving prefix, suffix, containmen...
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...