The Web of Data has emerged as a way of exposing structured linked data on the Web. It builds on the central building blocks of the Web (URIs, HTTP) and benefits from its simplic...
Given a large volume of Web documents, we consider problem of finding the shortest keyword sequences for each of the documents such that a keyword sequence can be rendered to a g...
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...
To enable information integration, schema matching is a critical step for discovering semantic correspondences of attributes across heterogeneous sources. As a new attempt, this p...
Learning to rank is a new statistical learning technology on creating a ranking model for sorting objects. The technology has been successfully applied to web search, and is becom...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...