Most traditional Information Retrieval (IR) systems, including web search engines, operationalize “relevant” as the word frequency in a document of a set of keywords. Because ...
Hyun Woong Shin, Eduard H. Hovy, Dennis McLeod, La...
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
This paper defines and describes a fully distributed implementation of Google’s highly effective Pagerank algorithm, for “peer to peer”(P2P) systems. The implementation is ...
Background: The proliferation of structural and functional studies of RNA has revealed an increasing range of RNA's structural repertoire. Toward the objective of systematic ...
Daniela Fera, Namhee Kim, Nahum Shiffeldrim, Julie...
We present a class of web queries whose result is a multi-column relation instead of a collection of unstructured documents as in standard web search. The user specifies the query...