Web users use search engine to find useful information on the Internet. However current web search engines return answer to a query independent of specific user information need. S...
An expert search system assists users with their "expertise need" by suggesting people with relevant expertise to their query. Most systems work by ranking documents in r...
The XML format has become the standard for data exchange because it is self-describing and it stores not only information but also the relationships between data. Therefore it is u...
Current search technologies work in "one size fits all" fashion. Therefore, the answer to a query is independent of specific user information need. In this paper, we des...
To formulate a meaningful query on semistructured data, such as on the Web, that matches some of the source’s structure, we need first to discover something about how the infor...