The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
When search engine users have trouble finding information, they may become frustrated, possibly resulting in a bad experience (even if they are ultimately successful). In a user ...
It is crucial for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems to deal with the translation of unknown queries1 due to that real queries might be short. The purpose of this...
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...
Abstract— Today’s networked systems are extensively instrumented for collecting a wealth of monitoring data. In this paper, we propose a framework called System-wide Similarity...