We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
Combining multiple information sources, typically from several data streams is a very promising approach, both in experiments and to some extend in various real-life applications. ...
Abstract. Web services are deemed as the natural choice for deploying e-government applications. Their use enables e-government to fully get advantage of the envisioned Semantic We...
Abstract-Unstructured text represents a large fraction of the world's data. It often contain snippets of structured information within them (e.g., people's names and zip ...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Eirinaios Michelakis, Joseph M. He...
Spatial join is an important yet costly operation in spatial databases. In order to speed up the execution of a spatial join, the input tables are often indexed based on their spa...