Background: High-throughput molecular biology provides new data at an incredible rate, so that the increase in the size of biological databanks is enormous and very rapid. This sc...
Content Management Systems (CMS) store enterprise data such as insurance claims, insurance policies, legal documents, patent applications, or archival data like in the case of dig...
Search engine technology plays an important role in Web information retrieval. However, with Internet information explosion, traditional searching techniques cannot provide satisfa...
Baile Shi, Guoyu Hao, Hongtao Xu, Mei Wang, Qi Zha...
Focused Web browsing activities such as periodically looking up headline news, weather reports, etc., which require only selective fragments of particular Web pages, can be made m...
When searching large hypertext document collections, it is often possible that there are too many results available for ambiguous queries. Query refinement is an interactive proce...