Understanding the intent behind a user's query can help search engine to automatically route the query to some corresponding vertical search engines to obtain particularly re...
Jian Hu, Gang Wang, Frederick H. Lochovsky, Jian-T...
Increasing use of multimedia data makes it crucial t o use intelligent search mechanisms for retrieving multimedia data by content. Digital video requires the incorporation of tem...
Serhan Dagtas, Wasfi Al-Khatib, Arif Ghafoor, Ashf...
This paper presents a hybrid concept hierarchy development technique for web returned documents retrieved by a meta-search engine. The aim of the technique is to separate the init...
Razvan Stefan Bot, Yi-fang Brook Wu, Xin Chen, Qua...
Digital forensic investigators are often faced with the task of manually examining a large number of (photographic) images in order to identify potential evidence. The task can be...
Yixin Chen, Vassil Roussev, Golden G. Richard III,...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...