The Semantic Web, which represents a web of knowledge, offers new opportunities to search for knowledge and information. To harvest such search power requires robust and scalable ...
Data on the Web is increasingly being used for discovery and exploratory tasks. Unlike traditional fact-finding tasks that require only the typical single-query and response parad...
An important requirement for emerging applications which aim to locate and integrate content distributed over the Web is to identify pages that are relevant for a given domain or ...
We present a robust method for gathering relational facts from the Web, based on matching generalized patterns which are automatically learned from seed facts for relations of int...
Ndapandula Nakashole, Martin Theobald, Gerhard Wei...
Tree patterns with full text search form the core of both XQuery Full Text and the NEXI query language. On such queries, users expect a relevance-ranked list of XML elements as an...
Wikipedia has become an important source of information which is growing very rapidly. However, the existing infrastructure for querying this information is limited and often igno...
Huong Nguyen, Thanh Nguyen, Hoa Nguyen, Juliana Fr...
The MapReduce distributed programming framework is very popular, but currently lacks the optimization techniques that have been standard with relational database systems for many ...
The transition of search engine users’ intents has been studied for a long time. The knowledge of intent transition, once discovered, can yield a better understanding of how diï...
A large number of web sites publish pages containing structured information about recognizable concepts, but these data are only partially used by current applications. Although s...
Paolo Papotti, Valter Crescenzi, Paolo Merialdo, M...
We introduce and study concurrent One-Way Protocols in social networks. The model is motivated by the rise of online social networks and the fast development of automation feature...