Understanding goals and preferences behind a user's online activities can greatly help information providers, such as search engine and E-Commerce web sites, to personalize c...
Honghua (Kathy) Dai, Lingzhi Zhao, Zaiqing Nie, Ji...
Users increasingly rely on their mobile devices to search local entities, typically businesses, while on the go. Even though recent work has recognized that the ranking signals in...
The World-Wide Web (WWW) is an ever growing, distributed, non-administered, global information resource. It resides on the worldwide computer network and allows access to heteroge...
 We propose a query formulation language, called MashQL for querying and mashing up structured data on the web. The novelty of MashQL is that it does not requireÂ...
Background: Biomedical and chemical databases are large and rapidly growing in size. Graphs naturally model such kinds of data. To fully exploit the wealth of information in these...