Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...
The goal of the Tsimmis Project is to develop tools that facilitate the rapid integration of heterogeneous information sources that may include both structured and unstructured da...
Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Hector Garcia-Molina, Joach...
An expert finding system allows a user to type a simple text query and retrieve names and contact information of individuals that possess the expertise expressed in the query. Thi...
It is a traditional belief that in order to scale-up to more effective retrieval and access methods modern Information Retrieval has to consider more the text content. The modalit...
Roberto Basili, Alessandro Moschitti, Maria Teresa...
Social annotation via so-called collaborative tagging describes the process by which many users add metadata in the form of unstructured keywords to shared content. In this paper,...