We are developing tools to support a conversational metaphor for requirements definition and analysis. Our conversational model consists of three components: (1) a hypertextual re...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...
Abstract. Since current search engines employ link-based ranking algorithms as an important tool to decide a ranking of sites, Web spammers are making a significant effort to man...
In prior work we have demonstrated that search engine caches and archiving projects like the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine can be used to “lazily preserve” websites and...