It is not always clear how best to represent integrated data sets, and which application and database features allow a scientist to take best advantage of data coming from various ...
Joanna Jakubowska, Ela Hunt, John McClure, Matthew...
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Knowledge-sharing communities like Wikipedia and automated extraction methods like those of DBpedia enable the construction of large machine-processible knowledge bases with relat...
Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...
Given the ranked lists of documents returned by multiple search engines in response to a given query, the problem of metasearch is to combine these lists in a way which optimizes ...