In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
In this short paper we introduce Helios, a flexible and efficient open source meta-search engine. Helios currently runs on the top of 16 search engines (in Web, Books, News, and A...
The problem of effectively combining multiple heuristic estimators has been studied extensively in the context of optimal planning, but not in the context of satisficing planning....
Users of the World-Wide Web are not only confronted by an immense overabundance of information, but also by a plethora of tools for searching for the web pages that suit their inf...
— We consider the problem of finding the relevant named entities in response to a search query over a given text corpus. Entity search can readily be used to augment conventiona...