A major challenge in developing models for hypertext retrieval is to effectively combine content information with the link structure available in hypertext collections. Although s...
Abstract--This position paper describes the challenges related to federated enterprise search over heterogeneous product information sources. It focuses on the aspect of finding re...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
In this paper we present an evaluation of techniques that are designed to encourage web searchers to interact more with the results of a web search. Two specific techniques are ex...
This paper introduces NETSPEAK, a Web service which assists writers in finding adequate expressions. To provide statistically relevant suggestions, the