Abstract. The focus of web search is moving away from returning relevant documents towards returning structured data as results to user queries. A vital part in the architecture of...
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
Previous research has taught us that the typical nonprofessional information seeker on the World Wide Web submits very short queries resulting in low-precision results. We show th...
Large-scale distributed data management with P2P systems requires the existence of similarity operators for queries as we cannot assume that all users will agree on exactly the sa...
In this paper, we propose a versatile disambiguation approach which can be used to make explicit the meaning of structure based information such as XML schemas, XML document struc...