The challenge of maximizing the diversity of a collection of points arises in a variety of settings, including the setting of search methods for hard optimization problems. One ver...
WebPMI is a popular web-based association measure to evaluate the semantic similarity between two queries (i.e. words or entities) by leveraging search results returned by search ...
Large scale image search has recently attracted considerable attention due to easy availability of huge amounts of data. Several hashing methods have been proposed to allow approx...
Web spamming techniques aim to achieve undeserved rankings in search results. Research has been widely conducted on identifying such spam and neutralizing its influence. However,...
There are information needs involving costly decisions that cannot be efficiently satisfied through conventional web search engines. Alternately, community centric search can prov...
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