Current search engines do not support user searches for chemical entities (chemical names and formulae) beyond simple keyword searches. Usually a chemical molecule can be represen...
One of the main hurdles towards a wide endorsement of ontologies is the high cost of constructing them. Reuse of existing ontologies offers a much cheaper alternative than buildin...
Modern web search engines are expected to return top-k results efficiently given a query. Although many dynamic index pruning strategies have been proposed for efficient top-k com...
Abstract. This paper presents an indexing technique based on WordNet synonyms and holonyms. This technique has been developed for the Geographical Information Retrieval task. It ma...
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...