Focused Web browsing activities such as periodically looking up headline news, weather reports, etc., which require only selective fragments of particular Web pages, can be made m...
With the wide adoption of XML as a standard data representation and exchange format, querying XML documents becomes increasingly important. However, relational database systems co...
This paper presents a novel domain-independent text segmentation method, which identifies the boundaries of topic changes in long text documents and/or text streams. The method c...
Fully automatic methods that extract lists of objects from the Web have been studied extensively. Record extraction, the first step of this object extraction process, identifies...
Searching online information is increasingly a daily activity for many people. The multilinguality of online content is also increasing (e.g. the proportion of English web users, ...
Yaser Al-Onaizan, Radu Florian, Martin Franz, Hany...