Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...
The recent explosion of on-line information in Digital Libraries and on the World Wide Web has given rise to a number of query-based search engines and manually constructed topica...
Mehran Sahami, Salim Yusufali, Michelle Q. Wang Ba...
Biodiversity databases have recently become widely available to the public and to other researchers. To retrieve information from these resources, users must understand the underl...
Bongshin Lee, Cynthia Sims Parr, Dana Campbell, Be...
Music librarians and cataloguers have traditionally created indexes that allow users to access musical works using standard reference information, such as the name of the composer...
Many web queries seek information about named entities (such as products or people). Web search engines federate such entity-oriented queries to relevant structured databases; the...