This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
Some applications have to present their results in the form of ranked lists. This is the case of many information retrieval applications, in which documents must be sorted accordi...
Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de Almeida, Marcos...
The World-Wide Web consists of a huge number of unstructured documents, but it also contains structured data in the form of HTML tables. We extracted 14.1 billion HTML tables from...
Michael J. Cafarella, Alon Y. Halevy, Daisy Zhe Wa...
Linked open data (LOD), as provided by a quickly growing number of sources constitutes a wealth of easily accessible information. However, this data is not easy to understand. It i...
Background: To characterize the diversity of bacterial populations in metagenomic studies, sequencing reads need to be accurately assigned to taxonomic units in a given reference ...