Recent advances in middleware technologies propose semantics-aware tuplespaces as an instrument for coping with the requirements of scalability, heterogeneity and dynamism arising ...
Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Reto Krummenacher, L...
This paper proposes a random Web crawl model. A Web crawl is a (biased and partial) image of the Web. This paper deals with the hyperlink structure, i.e. a Web crawl is a graph, w...
We describe ELVIS (the Ecosystem Location Visualization and Information System), a suite of tools for constructing food webs for a given location. We express both ELVIS input and ...
Cynthia Sims Parr, Andriy Parafiynyk, Joel Sachs, ...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
We present a novel passage-based approach to re-ranking documents in an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. While most work on passage-based document...