The human voice is primarily a carrier of speech, but it also contains non-linguistic features unique to a speaker and indicative of various speaker demographics, e.g. gender, nat...
Nearest neighbor queries are important in many settings, including spatial databases (Find the k closest cities) and multimedia databases (Find the k most similar images). Previou...
This paper presents a simple and intuitive method for mining search engine query logs to get fast query recommendations on a large scale industrial-strength search engine. In orde...
Personalized search has gained great popularity to improve search effectiveness in recent years. The objective of personalized search is to provide users with information tailored ...
Abstract—Most objects and data in the real world are interconnected, forming complex, heterogeneous but often semistructured information networks. However, many database research...