Search result diversification is a natural approach for tackling ambiguous queries. Nevertheless, not all queries are equally ambiguous, and hence different queries could bene...
Eye tracking experiments have shown that titles of Web search results play a crucial role in guiding a user’s search process. We present a machine-learned algorithm that trains ...
Tapas Kanungo, Nadia Ghamrawi, Ki Yuen Kim, Lawren...
This paper presents a max margin framework on image annotation and multimodal image retrieval as a structured prediction model. Following the max margin approach the image retriev...
Zhen Guo, Zhongfei Zhang, Eric P. Xing, Christos F...
Concept learning in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems is a challenging task. This paper presents an active concept learning approach based on mixture model to deal with...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...