Recent years have witnessed an explosion in the availability of news articles on the World Wide Web. Although searchengines’ algorithms have made it easier to locate these docum...
The proliferation of the World Wide Web has brought information retrieval (IR) techniques to the forefront of search technology. To the average computer user, “searching” now ...
CiteSeer and Google-Scholar are huge digital libraries which provide access to (computer-)science publications. Both collections are operated like specialized search engines, they ...
Most information retrieval settings, such as web search, are typically precision-oriented, i.e. they focus on retrieving a small number of highly relevant documents. However, in sp...
Information extraction approaches are heavily used to gather product information on the Web, especially focusing on technical product specifications. If requesting different sour...