Versioned document collections are collections that contain multiple versions of each document. Important examples are Web archives, Wikipedia and other wikis, or source code and ...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Many Web information services utilize techniques of information extraction (IE) to collect important facts from the Web. To create more advanced services, one possible method is t...
Reflecting the rapid growth of science, technology, and culture, it has become common practice to consult tools on the World Wide Web for various terms. Existing search engines pr...
This paper introduces a new approach to provide users with solutions to explore a domain via an information space. A key point in our approach is that information searching and ex...