In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Techniques for being able to automatically identify acronym patterns are very important for enhancing a multitude of applications that rely upon search. This task is challenging, d...
The so-called Semantic Web vision will certainly benefit from automatic semantic annotation of words in documents. We present a method, called structural semantic interconnections ...
Accurate topical categorization of user queries allows for increased effectiveness, efficiency, and revenue potential in general-purpose web search systems. Such categorization be...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
A major hardness of processing searches issued in the form of keywords on structured data is the ambiguity problem. A set of keywords itself is not a complete piece of information...