Keyword searching while very successful in narrowing down the contents of the Web to the pertaining subset of information, has two primary drawbacks. First, the accuracy of the se...
We present a system for efficient indexed querying of XML documents, enhanced with sibling operations. R-tree index proposed in [5] has a very high cost for the following-sibling...
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
Intuitively, any `bag of words' approach in IR should benefit from taking term dependencies into account. Unfortunately, for years the results of exploiting such dependencies ...
Eduard Hoenkamp, Peter Bruza, Dawei Song, Qiang Hu...
Many online or local data sources provide powerful querying mechanisms but limited ranking capabilities. For instance, PubMed allows users to submit highly expressive Boolean keywo...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Vagelis Hristidis, Yuheng...