Ambiguous queries constitute a significant fraction of search instances and pose real challenges to web search engines. With current approaches the top results for these queries ...
Several research areas today overlap between the tracks of databases, information retrieval and knowledge management, such as natural language processing, semantic web, digital li...
Combating Web spam has become one of the top challenges for Web search engines. State-of-the-art spam detection techniques are usually designed for specific known types of Web spa...
Keyword search enables web users to easily access XML data without the need to learn a structured query language and to study possibly complex data schemas. Existing work has addr...
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...