Publish/subscribe (or pub/sub) systems perform asynchronous message transmission, from publishers to subscribers, without any of the parties having knowledge of the other. The pub...
Search engine quality is impacted by two factors: the quality of the ranking/matching algorithm used and the freshness of the search engine’s index, which maintains a “snapsho...
Jie Xu, Qinglan Li, Huiming Qu, Alexandros Labrini...
Due to resource constraints, search engines usually have difficulties keeping the local database completely synchronized with the Web. To detect as many changes as possible, the ...
Qingzhao Tan, Ziming Zhuang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. L...
This paper pursues the recently emerging paradigm of searching for entities that are embedded in Web pages. We utilize informationextraction techniques to identify entity candidat...
Julia Stoyanovich, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Klaus Ber...
XML information retrieval (XML-IR) systems utilize the logical structure of XML documents for retrieving relevant elements. From a practical point of view, displaying the search r...
Clustering web search engine results for ambiguous keyword searches poses unique challenges. First, we show that one cannot readily import the frequency based feature ranking to c...
Open Information Extraction (OIE) is a recently-introduced type of information extraction that extracts small individual pieces of data from input text without any domainspecific...
With the massive adoption of internet technologies, social media and blogs have become primary means of expressing opinions online. The Blogosphere contains a wealth of informatio...
A large volume of geospatial data is available on the web through various forms of applications. However, access to these data is limited by certain types of queries due to restric...
Wan D. Bae, Shayma Alkobaisi, Seon Ho Kim, Sada Na...
The Internet has changed the way people look for information. Users now expect the answers to their questions to be available through a simple web search. Web search engines are i...