Traditional research on spelling correction in natural language processing and information retrieval literature mostly relies on pre-defined lexicons to detect spelling errors. Bu...
General-purpose search engines such as AltaVista and Lycos are notorious for returning irrelevant results in response to user queries. Consequently, thousands of specialized, topi...
Due to the enormous size of the web and low precision of user queries, finding the right information from the web can be difficult if not impossible. One approach that tries to ...
This paper describes the development of a semantic web and ontology based local search system that can be used in wireless mobile communication services. Categories and Subject De...
Hundreds of millions of users each day submit queries to the Web search engine. The user queries are typically very short which makes query understanding a challenging problem. In...