The Web has become the largest information repository over the world. Therefore, effectively and efficiently searching the Web becomes a key challenge. Previous research on Web se...
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
Web search is a challenging task. Previous research mainly exploits texts on the Web pages or link information between the pages, while multimedia information is largely ignored. ...
Due to many unique characteristics of forum data, forum post retrieval is different from traditional document retrieval and web search, raising interesting research questions abou...
Abstract. We present an intelligent information agent that uses semantic methods and natural language processing capabilites in order to gather tourist information from the WWW and...
Steffen Staab, Christian Braun, Ilvio Bruder, Antj...