The traditional crawlers used by search engines to build their collection of Web pages frequently gather unmodified pages that already exist in their collection. This creates unne...
The dominant method for evaluating search engines is the Cranfield paradigm, but the existing metrics do not consider some modern search engines features, such as document snippets...
In state-of-the-art image retrieval systems, an image is
represented by a bag of visual words obtained by quantizing
high-dimensional local image descriptors, and scalable
schem...
Zhong Wu (Tsinghua University), Qifa Ke (Microsoft...
Discovering users' specific and implicit geographic intention in web search can greatly help satisfy users' information needs. We build a geo intent analysis system that...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have received great attention for sharing and searching information in large user communities. The open and anonymous nature of P2P networks is one of ...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Debora Donato, Carlos Cas...