Image annotations allow users to access a large image database with textual queries. There have been several studies on automatic image annotation utilizing machine learning techn...
Aggregated search is the task of integrating results from potentially multiple specialized search services, or verticals, into the Web search results. The task requires predicting...
This paper describes Koru, a new search interface that offers effective domain-independent knowledge-based information retrieval. Koru exhibits an understanding of the topics of b...
Many vertical search tasks such as local search focus on specific domains. The meaning of relevance in these verticals is domain-specific and usually consists of multiple well-d...
Changsung Kang, Xuanhui Wang, Yi Chang, Belle L. T...
The problem of learning with positive and unlabeled examples arises frequently in retrieval applications. We transform the problem into a problem of learning with noise by labelin...