This paper proposes a method for automatic maintaining the similarity information for a particular class of Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS). The paper describes the three m...
There have been recent interests in studying the "goal" behind a user's Web query, so that this goal can be used to improve the quality of a search engine's re...
Web search engines help users find useful information on the WWW. However, when the same query is submitted by different users, typical search engines return the same result regar...
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...
XML is fast becoming the standard for information exchange on the Internet. As such, information expressed in XML will need to be integrated with existing information systems, whi...