Abstract. Information systems are socio-technical systems. Their design, analysis and implementation requires appropriate languages for representing social and technical concepts. ...
Query reformulation modifies the original query with the aim of better matching the vocabulary of the relevant documents, and consequently improving ranking effectiveness. Previou...
The World Wide Web is a large, heterogeneous, distributedcollectionof documents connected by hypertext links. The most common technologycurrently used for searching the Web depend...
Alberto O. Mendelzon, George A. Mihaila, Tova Milo
A large number of question and answer pairs can be collected from question and answer boards and FAQ pages on the Web. This paper proposes an automatic method of finding the ques...
In this paper, we show how previous work on escape analysis can be adapted and extended to yield a static analysis that is efficient yet effective for reducing the number of inter...