Most queries in web search are ambiguous and multifaceted. Identifying the major senses and facets of queries from search log data, referred to as query subtopic mining in this pa...
Yunhua Hu, Ya-nan Qian, Hang Li, Daxin Jiang, Jian...
Incompleteness due to missing attribute values (aka "null values") is very common in autonomous web databases, on which user accesses are usually supported through media...
To make the World Wide Web machine-understandable there is a strong demand both for languages describing metadata and for languages querying metadata. The Resource Description Fram...
Flavius Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben, Richard Vdovj...
SMARTWEB aims to provide intuitive multimodal access to a rich selection of Web-based information services. We report on the current prototype with a smartphone client interface t...
Daniel Sonntag, Ralf Engel, Gerd Herzog, Alexander...
If the model of free-form queries, which has proved successful for HTML based search on the Web, is made available for Grid services, it will serve as a powerful tool for scientis...