Entity linking deals with identifying entities from a knowledge base in a given piece of text
and has become a fundamental building block for web search engines, enabling numerous …

We consider the problem of creating an effective navigation structure over a data lake. We
define an organization as a navigation graph that contains nodes representing sets of …

Faceted Search is an exploratory search mechanism, which provides an iterative way to
refine search results by a faceted taxonomy. With the benefit of search results diversification …

In modern society, the increasing number of web search operations on various search
engines has become ubiquitous due to the significant number of results presented to the …

The ability to let users search for products conveniently in product database is critical to the
success of e-commerce. Although structured query languages (eg SQL) can be used to …

We address the problem of finding query facets which are multiple groups of words or
phrases that explain and summarize the content covered by a query. We assume that the …

Text mining, also known as Intelligent Text Analysis is an important research area. It is very
difficult to focus on the most appropriate information due to the high dimensionality of data …

Thanks to information extraction and semantic Web efforts, search on unstructured text is
increasingly refined using semantic annotations and structured knowledge bases. However …

Effective techniques for keyword search over RDF databases incorporate an explicit
interpretation phase that maps keywords in a keyword query to structured query constructs …

A query facet is a significant list of information nuggets that explains an underlying aspect of
a query. Existing algorithms mine facets of a query by extracting frequent lists contained in …