The proliferation of knowledge-sharing communities like Wikipedia and the advances in automated information extraction from Web pages enable the construction of large knowledge ba...
Background: The web has seen an explosion of chemistry and biology related resources in the last 15 years: thousands of scientific journals, databases, wikis, blogs and resources ...
Egon L. Willighagen, Noel M. O'Boyle, Harini Gopal...
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2008 Enterprise track and detail our language modeling-based approaches. For document search, our focus was on query expansion using pro...
This paper reports results from a failure analysis (i.e., incorrect query construction) of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Given that many d...
One of the key components of current Web search engines is the document collector. This paper describes CoBWeb, an automatic document collector, whose architecture is distributed ...
Altigran Soares da Silva, Eveline A. Veloso, Paulo...