Many searches on the web have a transactional intent. We argue that pages satisfying transactional needs can be distinguished from the more common pages that have some information...
As WWW becomes more and more popular and powerful, how to search information on the web in database way becomes an important research topic. COMMIX, which is developed in the DB g...
Tengjiao Wang, Shiwei Tang, Dongqing Yang, Jun Gao...
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
This paper presents an intelligent Information (course materials) Management System, (called AnyServer) which can serve as an Web based Learning platform (WLP) and enable course ed...
Pui-on Au, Leung Cheng, Weijia Jia, Paul Kai-on Ch...
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...