The XML Wrapper is a new feature of the federated database capabilities of DB2/UDB v8. It enables users and applications to issue SQL queries against XML data from a variety of so...
In Japanese, there are a large number of notational variants of words. This is because Japanese words are written in three kinds of characters: kanji (Chinese) characters, hiragar...
Aya Nishikawa, Ryo Nishimura, Yasuhiko Watanabe, Y...
Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...
PageRank is known to be an efficient metric for computing general document importance in the Web. While commonly used as a one-size-fits-all measure, the ability to produce topica...
Tables are ubiquitous. Unfortunately, no search engine supports table search. In this paper, we propose a novel table specific searching engine, TableSeer, to facilitate the table...