Understanding the intent behind a user's query can help search engine to automatically route the query to some corresponding vertical search engines to obtain particularly re...
Jian Hu, Gang Wang, Frederick H. Lochovsky, Jian-T...
In this paper we describe techniques for the discovery and construction of user profiles. Leveraging from the emergent data web, our system addresses the problem of sparseness of ...
In this paper, we describe the fully dynamic semantic portal we implemented, integrating Semantic Web technologies and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The goals of the portal...
In a traditional keyword-search system in XML data, a user composes a keyword query, submits it to the system, and retrieves relevant subtrees. In the case where the user has limi...
Collaborative Tagging is a powerful method to create folksonomies that can be used to grasp/filter user preferences or enhance web search. Recent research has shown that depending...
People use weblogs to express thoughts, present ideas and share knowledge, therefore weblogs are extraordinarily valuable resources, amongs others, for trend analysis. Trends are ...
User-Interactive Question Answering (QA) communities such as Yahoo! Answers are growing in popularity. However, as these QA sites always have thousands of new questions posted dai...
Giving suggestions to users of Web-based services is a common practice aimed at enhancing their navigation experience. Major Web Search Engines usually provide Suggestions under t...
Ranieri Baraglia, Fidel Cacheda, Victor Carneiro, ...
Web hosting providers are increasingly looking into dynamic hosting to reduce costs and improve the performance of their platforms. Instead of provisioning fixed resources to each...
Zakaria Al-Qudah, Hussein A. Alzoubi, Mark Allman,...
Automatic folksonomy construction from tags has attracted much attention recently. However, inferring hierarchical relations between concepts from tags has a drawback in that it i...