Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...
Existing Language Identification (LID) approaches do reach 100% precision, in most common situations, when dealing with documents written in just one language, and when those docu...
We consider the problem of rewriting a query efficiently using materialized views. In the context of information integration, this problem has received significant attention in th...
Abstract. In a society, we have many forms of relations with other people from home, work or school. These relationships give rise to a social network. People in a social network r...
Abstract. Ontologies underpin the semantic web; they define the concepts and their relationships contained in a data source. An increasing number of ontologies are available on-lin...
Heather S. Packer, Nicholas Gibbins, Nicholas R. J...