The vision of Semantic Web services promises a network of interoperable Web services over different sources. A major challenge to the realization of this vision is the lack of aut...
Wensheng Wu, AnHai Doan, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng
Early TREC-style Question Answering Systems were characterized by the following features: (a) the answer of the question was known to be included in a given local corpus, (b) the ...
We investigate the criteria used by online searchers when assessing the relevance of web pages to information-seeking tasks. Twenty four searchers were given three tasks each, and...
Searching and comparing information from semi-structured repositories is an important, but cognitively complex activity for internet users. The typical web interface displays a li...
Maria-Elena Hernandez, Sean M. Falconer, Margaret-...
The growing amount of online news posted on the WWW demands new algorithms that support topic detection, search, and navigation of news documents. This work presents an algorithm f...