Objective Social media is becoming increasingly popular as a platform for sharing personal
health-related information. This information can be utilized for public health monitoring tasks …

Currently, techniques for content description and query processing in Information Retrieval
(IR) are based on keywords, and therefore provide limited capabilities to capture the …

The goal of semantic search is to improve on traditional search methods by exploiting the
semantic metadata. In this paper, we argue that supporting iterative and exploratory search …

With the continued growth of online semantic information, the processes of searching and
managing this massive scale and heterogeneous content have become increasingly …

With the recent rapid growth of the Semantic Web (SW), the processes of searching and
querying content that is both massive in scale and heterogeneous have become …

Search and information retrieval systems are becoming more expressive in interpreting user
queries beyond the traditional weighted bag-of-words model of document retrieval. For …

The Web has witnessed an enormous growth in the amount of semantic information
published in recent years. This growth has been stimulated to a large extent by the …

Entity-oriented search tasks heavily rely on exploiting unstructured and structured
collections. Moreover, it is frequent for text corpora and knowledge bases to provide …

While semantic search technologies have been proven to work well in specific domains,
they still have to confront two main challenges to scale up to the Web in its entirety. In this …

The process of authoring ontologies requires the active involvement of domain experts who
should lead the process, as well as providing the relevant conceptual knowledge. However …