Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery have gained immense importance in the wake of recent man and nature inflicted calamities. A critical problem in a crisis situation is how t...
Li Zheng, Chao Shen, Liang Tang, Tao Li, Steven Lu...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...
There are a number of established products on the market for wrapping—semi-automatic navigation and extraction of data—from web pages. These solutions make use of the inherent...
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
We report on a study that was undertaken to better identify users' goals behind web search queries by using click through data. Based on user logs which contain over 80 millio...