Many existing indexes on text work at the document granularity and are not effective in answering the class of queries where the desired answer is only a term or a phrase. In this...
The Web contains a large amount of documents and increasingly, also semantic data in the form of RDF triples. Many of these triples are annotations that are associated with docume...
Many web queries seek information about named entities (such as products or people). Web search engines federate such entity-oriented queries to relevant structured databases; the...
Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
TASTIER is a research project on the new information-access paradigm called type-ahead search, in which systems find answers to a keyword query on-the-fly as users type in the quer...
Guoliang Li, Shengyue Ji, Chen Li, Jiannan Wang, J...