General purpose Web search engines are becoming ineffective due to the rapid growth and changes in the contents of the World Wide Web. Meta-search engines help a bit by having a b...
Leo Yuen, Matthew Chang, Ying Kit Lai, Chung Keung...
In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of an audio wiki application accessible via both the Public Switched Telephone Network and the Internet. The application ex...
Constantinos Kolias, Vassilis Kolias, Ioannis Anag...
The World-Wide-Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on the Web is presented in loosely structured natural language text with no agent-readable semantics...
Searching the internet using the currently available searchengines is not satisfactory. Thetechniquesused there focus on the extraction of relevant informationdirectlyfrom the doc...
In a traditional information retrieval system, it is assumed that queries can be posed about any topic. In reality, a large fraction of web queries are posed about a relatively sm...