Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
The design of webbases, database systems for supporting Webbased applications, is currently an active area of research. In this paper, we propose a 3-layer architecture for design...
Hasan Davulcu, Juliana Freire, Michael Kifer, I. V...
In this paper we present the World-Wide Web Wrapper Factory (W4F), a Java toolkit to generate wrappers for Web data sources. Some key features of W4F are an expressive language to...
In this paper, we present our preliminary work on a Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) system that utilizes loosely coupled web services and Google EarthTM (GE) to retrieve, e...
Brian M. Tomaszewski, Chi-Chun Pan, Prasenjit Mitr...
This study extends the web classification approach through a proximity-based fuzzy clustering sensible to the influence of the page. The proximity-based fuzzy clustering works in ...