The emerging paradigm of web services promises to bring to distributed computing the same flexibility that the web has brought to the publication and search of information contain...
Xiaocong Fan, Karthikeyan Umapathy, John Yen, Sand...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...
The World Wide Web no longer consists just of HTML pages. Our work sheds light on a number of trends on the Internet that go beyond simple Web pages. The hidden Web provides a wea...
Fabian M. Suchanek, Aparna S. Varde, Richi Nayak, ...
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
The lack of a large scale Chinese test collection is an obstacle to the Chinese information retrieval development. In order to address this issue, we built such a collection compos...