We present the architecture and a performance assessment of an extensible query optimizer written in Venus. Venus is a general-purpose active-database rule language embedded in C+...
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
Web sites must often service a wide variety of clients. Thus, it is inevitable that a web site will allow some visitors to find their information quickly while other visitors have...
Rapid increase in the number of pages on web sites, and widespread use of search engine optimization techniques, lead to web sites becoming difficult to navigate. Traditional site ...
This paper presents Wolverhampton University's participation in the WiQA competition. The method chosen for this task combines a high precision, but low recall information re...