The aim of this study is to investigate whether element retrieval (as opposed to full-text retrieval) is meaningful and useful for searchers when carrying out information-seeking ...
DeXIN (Distributed extended XQuery for data INtegration) integrates multiple, heterogeneous, highly distributed and rapidly changing web data sources in different formats, e.g. XML...
Muhammad Intizar Ali, Reinhard Pichler, Hong Linh ...
The explosion of the number of web-based information sources has drastically increased the need for intelligent mediation tools to be implemented between the users and these infor...
Querying and integrating sources of structured data from the Web in most cases requires similarity-based concepts to deal with data level conflicts. This is due to the often errone...
In this paper, we describe a novel Web query processing approach with learning capabilities. Under this approach, user queries are in the form of keywords and search engines are e...