For TREC-9, we focused on effectiveness in the web track. The key techniques we employed were information fusion, entity-based relevance feedback, Wordnet-based query parsing and ...
Abdur Chowdhury, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen...
We propose and study a new ranking problem in versioned databases. Consider a database of versioned objects which have different valid instances along a history (e.g., documents i...
Leong Hou U, Nikos Mamoulis, Klaus Berberich, Srik...
While extensive work has been done on evaluating queries over tuple-independent probabilistic databases, query evaluation over correlated data has received much less attention eve...
To achieve scalability of query answering, the developers of Semantic Web applications are often forced to use incomplete OWL 2 reasoners, which fail to derive all answers for at ...
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Boris Motik, Giorgos Stoilos...
Many researchers have noted that web search queries are often ambiguous or unclear. We present an approach for identifying the popular meanings of queries using web search logs an...