—Authority flow and proximity search have been used extensively in measuring the association between entities in data graphs, ranging from the Web to relational and XML database...
This article describes an application of the partially observable Markov (POM) model to the analysis of a large scale commercial web search log. Mathematically, POM is a variant o...
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
Music thumbnailing (or music summarization) aims at finding the most representative part of a song, which can be used for web browsing, web searching and music recommendation. Thr...
Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...