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...
Many databases have become Web-accessible through form-based search interfaces (i.e., HTML forms) that allow users to specify complex and precise queries to access the underlying ...
Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Yiyao Lu, Clement T. Yu, Zongh...
For many users with a disability it can be difficult or impossible to use a computer mouse to navigate the web. An alternative way to select elements on a web page is the label ty...
Documents in the Web are often organized using category trees by information providers (e.g. CNN, BBC) or search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo!). Such category trees are commonly kn...
Traditionally, information extraction from web tables has focused on small, more or less homogeneous corpora, often based on assumptions about the use of <table> tags. A mul...