With the ever increasing size of the web, relevant information extraction on the Internet with
a query formed by a few keywords has become a big challenge. Query Expansion (QE) …

Semantic Question Answering (SQA) removes two major access requirements to the
Semantic Web: the mastery of a formal query language like SPARQL and knowledge of a …

This review presents various perspectives on converting user keywords into a formal query.
Without understanding the dataset's underlying structure, how can a user input a text-based …

We exploit the visual properties of concepts for lexical entailment detection by examining a
concept's generality. We introduce three unsupervised methods for determining a concept's …

The big data era is witnessing a prevalent shift of data from homogeneous to
heterogeneous, from isolated to linked. Exemplar outcomes of this shift are a wide range of …

Query expansion (QE) is an important process in information retrieval applications that
improves the user query and helps in retrieving relevant results. In this paper, we introduce a …

This paper investigates how Linked Open Data (LOD) can be used for recommendations
and information retrieval within digital libraries. While numerous studies on both research …

For non-expert users, a textual query is the most popular and simple means for
communicating with a retrieval or question answering system. However, there is a risk of …

Document retrieval from a large document storage database may be facilitated through the
use of a search system configured for identifying concepts related to a specific search query …

Abstract Search Engine Advertising has been widely adopted by advertisers to target
potential consumers. However, the advertisers generally focus on limited popular …