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AAAI
2006
14 years 11 months ago
Using the Semantic Web to Integrate Ecoinformatics Resources
We demonstrate an end-to-end use case of the semantic web's utility for synthesizing ecological and environmental data. ELVIS (the Ecosystem Location Visualization and Inform...
Cynthia Sims Parr, Andriy Parafiynyk, Joel Sachs, ...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Finding relevant documents using top ranking sentences: an evaluation of two alternative schemes
In this paper we present an evaluation of techniques that are designed to encourage web searchers to interact more with the results of a web search. Two specific techniques are ex...
Ryen White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose
WWW
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Topic-oriented query expansion for web search
The contribution of this paper includes three folders: (1) To introduce a topic-oriented query expansion model based on the Information Bottleneck theory that classify terms into ...
Shao-Chi Wang, Yuzuru Tanaka
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
ICDT
1997
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
Queries and Computation on the Web
The paper introduces a model of the Web as an in nite, semistructured set of objects. We reconsider the classical notions of genericity and computability of queries in this new con...
Serge Abiteboul, Victor Vianu