Ontologies represent a method of formally expressing a shared understanding of information, and have been seen by many authors as a prerequisite for the "Semantic web". ...
Hidden Web databases maintain a collection of specialised documents, which are dynamically generated in response to users' queries. The majority of these documents are genera...
Yih-Ling Hedley, Muhammad Younas, Anne E. James, M...
This paper evaluates the potential impact of explicit phrases on retrieval quality through a case study with the TREC Terabyte benchmark. It compares the performance of user- and s...
Recently, privacy issues have become important in clustering analysis, especially when data is horizontally partitioned over several parties. Associative queries are the core retr...
Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...