Internet is a huge source of information. Search engines have indexed much of this information and are able to extract the relevant webpages that are related to a given query. Howe...
The goal of the Eighth Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb 2011), held in conjunction with WWW 2011 on March 28th, 2011 at Hyderabad, India was to bring together...
There are major trends to advance the functionality of search engines to a more expressive semantic level. This is enabled by the advent of knowledge-sharing communities such as W...
Many researchers have noted that web search queries are often ambiguous or unclear. We present an approach for identifying the popular meanings of queries using web search logs an...
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...