People frequently use the world-wide web to find their most preferred item among a large range of options. We call this task preference-based search. The most common tool for pref...
With the advent of fast growing Internet and World Wide Web (WWW), more and more companies start the electronic commerce to enhance the business competitiveness. On the other hand...
Background: The evaluation of information retrieval techniques has traditionally relied on human judges to determine which documents are relevant to a query and which are not. Thi...
This paper introduces the problem of matching people names to their corresponding social network identities such as their Twitter accounts. Existing tools for this purpose build u...
Gae-won You, Seung-won Hwang, Zaiqing Nie, Ji-Rong...
We present a method of searching text collections that takes advantage of hierarchrical information within documents and integrates searches of structured and unstructured data. W...
M. Catherine McCabe, Jinho Lee, Abdur Chowdhury, D...