Due to both the size and growth of the internet, new tools are needed to assist with the finding and extraction of very specific resources relevant to a user's task. Previous...
Biological scientists have made large amounts of data available on the Web, which can be accessed by canned or precomputed queries presented via web forms. To satisfy further info...
Diego Calvanese, C. Maria Keet, Werner Nutt, Maria...
Finding a proper distribution of translation probabilities is one of the most important factors impacting the effectiveness of a crosslanguage information retrieval system. In th...
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
Many web pages and resources are primarily relevant to certain geographic locations. For example, in many queries web pages on restaurants, hotels, or movie theaters are only rele...