Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
After several years of development, the vision of the Semantic Web is gradually becoming reality. Large data repositories have been created and offer semantic information in a mac...
Subject-specific search facilities on health sites are usually built using manual inclusion and exclusion rules. These can be expensive to maintain and often provide incomplete c...
Thanh Tin Tang, David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Kath...
Managing multiple versions of XML documents represents an important problem, because of many applications ranging from traditional ones, such as software configuration control, to...
Current user interfaces for Web search, including browsers and search engine sites, typically treat search as a transient activity. However, people often conduct complex, multique...