In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
We present GoGetIt!, a tool for generating structure-driven crawlers that requires a minimum effort from the users. The tool takes as input a sample page and an entry point to a W...
Altigran Soares da Silva, Edleno Silva de Moura, J...
The asymmetry of activity in virtual communities is of great interest. While participation in the activities of virtual communities is crucial for a community's survival and ...
Identifying and tracking new information on the Web is important in sociology, marketing, and survey research, since new trends might be apparent in the new information. Such chan...
In this paper, we describe research into the use of ontologies to integrate access to cultural heritage and photographic archives. The use of the CIDOC CRM and CRM Core ontologies...
Patrick A. S. Sinclair, Paul H. Lewis, Kirk Martin...
I present analysis examining some of the causes of poor connectivity in developing countries. Based on a technoeconomic analysis and design, I show that technical limitations per ...
Integration of Web search with geographic information has recently attracted much attention. There are a number of local Web search systems enabling users to find locationspecific...
Semantic Web technologies are bring increasingly employed to solve knowledge management issues in traditional Web technologies. This paper follows that trend and proposes using Se...
Brian Shields, Owen Molloy, Gerard Lyons, Jim Dugg...
In this work we propose a method that retrieves a list of related queries given an initial input query. The related queries are based on the query log of previously issued queries...