The primary business model behind Web search is based on textual advertising, where contextually relevant ads are displayed alongside search results. We address the problem of sel...
Filip Radlinski, Andrei Z. Broder, Peter Ciccolo, ...
While classic information retrieval methods return whole documents as a result of a query, many information demands would be better satisfied by fine-grain access inside the docu...
We present WSQ/DSQ (pronounced “wisk-disk”), a new approach for combining the query facilities of traditional databases with existing search engines on the Web. WSQ, for Web-S...
Abstract. Regarding web searches, users have become used to keywordbased search interfaces due to their ease of use. However, this implies a semantic gap between the user's in...
Carlos Bobed, Raquel Trillo, Eduardo Mena, Sergio ...
Image search is becoming prevalent in web search as the number of digital photos grows exponentially on the internet. For a successful image search system, removing outliers in th...