Large web search engines have to answer thousands of queries per second with interactive response times. Due to the sizes of the data sets involved, often in the range of multiple...
Focused Web browsing activities such as periodically looking up headline news, weather reports, etc., which require only selective fragments of particular Web pages, can be made m...
This paper studies the problem of extracting data from a Web page that contains several structured data records. The objective is to segment these data records, extract data items...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
Experienced web users have strategies for information search and re-access that are not directly supported by web browsers or search engines. We studied how prevalent these strate...