: Reported is the methodology of the semantic transformation of an initial user’s search query in the form of key words or key phrases to the resulting query composed of the rele...
Due to the popularity of the XML data format, several query languages for XML have been proposed, specially devised to handle data whose structure is unknown, loose, or absent. Wh...
Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Ioana Manolescu
The Internet and corporate intranets provide far more information than anybody can absorb. People use search engines to find the information they require. However, these systems t...
: When one tries to use the Web as a dictionary or encyclopedia, entering some single term into a search engine, the highly-ranked pages in the result can include irrelevant or use...
In this paper we investigate how information surrogates might be useful in exploratory search and what information it is useful for a surrogate to contain. By comparing assessment...
Ian Ruthven, Mark Baillie, Leif Azzopardi, Ralf Bi...