One hundred users, one hundred needs. As more and more topics are being discussed on the web and our vocabulary remains relatively stable, it is increasingly difficult to let the ...
This paper analyzes the results of the INEX 2009 Ad Hoc Track, focusing on a variety of topics. First, we examine in detail the relevance judgments. Second, we study the resulting ...
This paper improves the use of pseudowords as an evaluation framework for selectional preferences. While pseudowords originally evaluated word sense disambiguation, they are now c...
In this paper, we introduce preferential regular path queries. These are regular path queries whose symbols are annotated with preference weights for “scaling” up or down the i...
There has been an explosion of hyperlinked data in many domains, e.g., the biological Web. Expressive query languages and effective ranking techniques are required to convert this...