Data about everything is readily available on the web—but often only accessible through elaborate user interactions. For automated decision support, extracting that data is esse...
Andrew Jon Sellers, Tim Furche, Georg Gottlob, Gio...
Snippets are used by almost every text search engine to complement ranking schemes in order to effectively handle user keyword search. Despite the fact that XML is a standard repr...
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
We present a general framework for the task of extracting specific information “on demand” from a large corpus such as the Web under resource-constraints. Given a database wit...
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...