The recent proliferation of multimedia information on the web enhances user information
need from simple textual lookup to multi-modal exploration activities. The current search …

On web information exists in the form of text, audio, image, and video objects often referred
to multiple media objects. Vertical web search provides the search of multiple media …

In this paper, we propose an attribute retrieval approach which extracts and ranks attributes
from HTML tables. We distinguish between class attribute retrieval and instance attribute …

Typhoon is one of the most destructive natural disasters in the world. Real-time information
on the process of typhoon events serves as important reference for disaster emergency. In …

In this paper, we propose an attribute retrieval approach which extracts and ranks attributes
from HTML tables. Given an instance (eg Tower of Pisa), we want to retrieve from the Web its …

Nowadays, children of very young ages and teenagers use the Internet extensively for
entertainment and educational purposes. The number of active young users in the Internet is …

Résumé La recherche d'information agrégée permet, en réponse à une requête, d'agréger
des granules d'information provenant de plusieurs sources et de renvoyer à l'utilisateur un …

Abstract Information retrieval has considered retrieving information with different
granularities such as document, passage, paragraph and with different types such as …

Aggregated search attempts to satisfy user's need by searching and assembling information
from variety verticals and placing them into a single result page. Aggregated search has two …