Most product search engines today build on models of relevance devised for information retrieval. However, the decision mechanism that underlies the process of buying a product is...
This paper studies the problem of unified ranked retrieval of heterogeneous XML documents and Web data. We propose an effective search engine called Sailer to adaptively and versa...
Keyword search techniques that take advantage of XML structure make it very easy for ordinary users to query XML databases, but current approaches to processing these queries rely...
In this paper, we discuss how to present the result of searching elements of any type from XML documents relevant to some information need (relevance-oriented search). As the resu...
Machine Learned Ranking approaches have shown successes in web search engines. With the increasing demands on developing effective ranking functions for different search domains, ...
Keke Chen, Rongqing Lu, C. K. Wong, Gordon Sun, La...