Queries describe the users' search intent and therefore they play an essential role in the context of ranking for information retrieval and Web search. However, most of exist...
Given the significant amount of personal information available on the Web, verifying its correct use emerges as an important issue. When personal information is published, it shoul...
Measuring the similarity between implicit semantic relations is an important task in information retrieval and natural language processing. For example, consider the situation whe...
Set expansion refers to expanding a partial set of “seed” objects into a more complete set. One system that does set expansion is SEAL (Set Expander for Any Language), which e...
Although originally designed for large-scale electronic publishing, XML plays an increasingly important role in the exchange of data on the Web. In fact, it is expected that XML w...