Many searches on the web have a transactional intent. We argue that pages satisfying transactional needs can be distinguished from the more common pages that have some information...
Online photo sharing systems, such as Flickr and Picasa, provide a valuable source of human-annotated photos. Textual annotations are used not only to describe the visual content ...
E cient storage and retrieval of multi-attribute datasets have become one of the essential requirements for many data-intensive applications. The Cartesian product le has been kno...
This paper explores the problem of computing pairwise similarity on document collections, focusing on the application of “more like this” queries in the life sciences domain. ...
Numerous studies have examined the ability of query performance prediction methods to estimate a query’s quality for system effectiveness measures (such as average precision). ...
Claudia Hauff, Franciska de Jong, Diane Kelly, Lei...