Search engines return ranked lists of Web pages in response to queries. These pages are starting points for post-query navigation, but may be insufficient for search tasks involvi...
As a principled approach to capturing semantic relations of words in information retrieval, statistical translation models have been shown to outperform simple document language m...
Blog post opinion retrieval aims at finding blog posts that are relevant and opinionated about a user’s query. In this paper we propose a simple probabilistic model for assigni...
A database application differs form regular applications in that some of its inputs may be database queries. The program will execute the queries on a database and may use any re...
Successfully structuring information in databases, OLAP cubes, and XML is a crucial element in managing data nowadays. However this process brought new challenges to usability. It...