Existing works in XML keyword search have addressed the problem of finding matching results of a query. However, user input queries always contain irrelevant or mismatched terms, ...
Jiaheng Lu, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Xiaofeng M...
Retrieving information from heterogeneous data sources in a flexible manner and within a single (database) framework is still a challenge. In this paper we present several extensi...
Decentralized and unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Gnutella are attractive for Internet-scale information retrieval and search systems because they require neither...
Domain specific information retrieval has become in demand. Not only domain experts, but also average non-expert users are interested in searching domain specific (e.g., medical a...
Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...