During grouping tasks for data exploration and sense-making, the criteria are normally not well-defined. When users are bringing together data objects thought to be similar in som...
Xiaohua Sun, Patrick Chiu, Jeffrey Huang, Maribeth...
Current search engines cannot effectively rank those relational data, which exists on dynamic websites supported by online databases. In this study, to rank such structured data, ...
Cooperation in information retrieval contexts can be used to share query results inside groups of individuals with common objectives, provided that all of them are aware of each ot...
— As person names are non-unique, the same name on different Web pages might or might not refer to the same real-world person. This entity identification problem is one of the m...
Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...