We formulate the problem of salient region detection in images as Markov random walks performed on images represented as graphs. While the global properties of the image are extra...
Despite the widespread use of BM25, there have been few studies examining its effectiveness on a document description over single and multiple field combinations. We determine t...
The problem of measuring similarity between web pages arises in many important Web applications, such as search engines and Web directories. In this paper, we propose a novel neig...
A voting system is a set of rules that a community adopts to take collective decisions. In this paper we study voting systems for a particular kind of community: electronically me...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...
In this paper we present a general framework to study sequences of search activities performed by a user. Our framework provides (i) a vocabulary to discuss types of features, mod...
Qiaozhu Mei, Kristina Klinkner, Ravi Kumar, Andrew...