Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature. By processing a text database with information extraction systems, we can define a variety of structured "relati...
Applying meta search systems is a suitable method to support the user if there are many different retrieval services available in the Web. Due to information splitting strategies ...
This paper proposes a strategy to reduce the amount of hardware involved in the solution of search engine queries. It proposes using a secondary compact cache that keeps minimal i...
In evidence-based medicine, clinical questions involve four aspects: Patient/Problem (P), Intervention (I), Comparison (C) and Outcome (O), known as PICO elements. In this paper w...
Ambiguous queries constitute a significant fraction of search instances and pose real challenges to web search engines. With current approaches the top results for these queries ...