Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
Biomedical researchers rely on keyword-based search engines to retrieve superficially relevant documents, from which they must filter out irrelevant information manually. Hence, t...
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Hong-Jie Dai, Hsi-Chuan Hu...
As the Web provides rich data embedded in the immense contents inside pages, we witness many ad-hoc efforts for exploiting fine granularity information across Web text, such as We...
As the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) becomes more widespread, so does the need for effective information discovery on them. Recently proposed EMR standards are XML-based...
Although keyword query enables inexperienced users to easily search XML database with no specific knowledge of complex structured query languages or XML data schemas, the ambigui...