The ability to utilize and benefit from today's explosion of social media sites depends on providing tools that allow users to productively participate. In order to participa...
Marc Smith, Vladimir Barash, Lise Getoor, Hady Wir...
“W3QL: A Query Language for the WWW”, published in 1995, presented a language with several distinctive features. Employing existing indexes as access paths, it allowed the sel...
Traditional information retrieval systems aim at satisfying most users for most of their searches, leaving aside the context in which the search takes place. We propose to model tw...
Nathalie Hernandez, Josiane Mothe, Claude Chrismen...
Abstract. Retrieving semistructured (XML) data typically requires either a structured query such as XPath, or a keyword query that does not take structure into account. In this pap...
Information retrieval is generally considered an individual activity, and information retrieval research and tools reflect this view. As digitally mediated communication and infor...
Steven E. Poltrock, Jonathan Grudin, Susan T. Duma...