We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Prototyping and evaluation combine to explore ways that an effective, integrative organization of project-related information might emerge as a by-product of a person's effor...
William Jones, Predrag V. Klasnja, Andrea Civan, M...
Emerging applications such as personalized portals, enterprise search and web integration systems often require keyword search over semi-structured views. However, traditional inf...
Feng Shao, Lin Guo, Chavdar Botev, Anand Bhaskar, ...
This work is a proposal for a database index structure that has been specifically designed to support the evaluation of XPath queries. As such, the index is capable to support all...
Abstract. We consider a collaboration of peers autonomously crawling the Web. A pivotal issue when designing a peer-to-peer (P2P) Web search engine in this environment is query rou...
Sebastian Michel, Matthias Bender, Peter Triantafi...