Web-database systems are nowadays an integral part of everybody's life, with applications ranging from monitoring/trading stock portfolios, to personalized blog aggregation a...
Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...
The goal of contextual information retrieval (CIR) is to better meet the user's needs by delivering him information adapted to his specific search context. This paper presents...
A primary challenge to large-scale data integration is creating semantic equivalences between elements from different data sources that correspond to the same real-world entity or...
Shawn R. Jeffery, Michael J. Franklin, Alon Y. Hal...
There has been considerable work on user browsing models for search engine results, both organic and sponsored. The click-through rate (CTR) of a result is the product of the prob...
Ramakrishnan Srikant, Sugato Basu, Ni Wang, Daryl ...