One of the main interests in the Web Information Retrieval research area is the identification of the user interests and needs so the search engines and tools can help the users t...
The problem of efficiently finding the best match for a query in a given set with respect to the Euclidean distance or the cosine similarity has been extensively studied. However...
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Much of the world’s data is in the form of time series, and many other types of data, such as video, image, and handwriting, can easily be transformed into time series. This fact...
After several years of development, the vision of the Semantic Web is gradually becoming reality. Large data repositories have been created and offer semantic information in a mac...