Knowledge Sifter is a scaleable agent-based system that supports access to heterogeneous information sources such as the Web, open-source repositories, XML-databases and the emergi...
Larry Kerschberg, Mizan Chowdhury, Alberto Damiano...
The Semantic Web, which represents a web of knowledge, offers new opportunities to search for knowledge and information. To harvest such search power requires robust and scalable ...
-- Searching for medical information on the Web is popular and important. However, medical search has its own unique requirements that are poorly handled by existing medical Web se...
Geographical gazetteers are necessary in a wide variety of applications. In the past, the construction of such gazetteers has been a tedious, manual process and only recently have...
Adrian Popescu, Gregory Grefenstette, Houda Bouamo...
Query formulation is an essential part of successful information retrieval. The challenges in formulating effective queries are emphasized in web information search, because the w...