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DILS
2009
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
Exploiting Parallelism to Accelerate Keyword Search on Deep-Web Sources
Increasingly, biological data is being shared over the deep web. Many biological queries can only be answered by successively searching a number of distinct web-sites. This paper i...
Tantan Liu, Fan Wang, Gagan Agrawal
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
GIS
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Supporting location-based approximate-keyword queries
Many Web sites support keyword search on their spatial data, such as business listings and photos. In these systems, inconsistencies and errors can exist in both queries and the d...
Sattam Alsubaiee, Alexander Behm, Chen Li
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
105views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
Supporting entity search: a large-scale prototype search engine
As the Web has evolved into a data-rich repository, with the standard "page view," current search engines are increasingly inadequate. While we often search for various ...
Tao Cheng, Xifeng Yan, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
219views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 6 months ago
Hermes: a travel through semantics on the data web
The Web as a global information space is developing from a Web of documents to a Web of data. This development opens new ways for addressing complex information needs. Search is n...
Haofen Wang, Thomas Penin, Kaifeng Xu, Junquan Che...