In many retrieval tasks, one important goal involves retrieving a diverse set of results (e.g., documents covering a wide range of topics for a search query). First of all, this r...
The information on the World Wide Web is growing without bound. Users may have very diversified preferences in the pages they target through a search engine. It is therefore a chal...
Qingzhao Tan, Xiaoyong Chai, Wilfred Ng, Dik Lun L...
In order to deal with the diversified nature of XML documents as well as individual user preferences, we propose a novel Multiodel (MRM), which is able to abstract a spectrum of i...
-- Searching for medical information on the Web is popular and important. However, medical search has its own unique requirements that are poorly handled by existing medical Web se...
Web image search is inspired by text search techniques; it mainly relies on indexing textual data that surround the image file. But retrieval results are often noisy and image pro...