We present a method of searching text collections that takes advantage of hierarchrical information within documents and integrates searches of structured and unstructured data. W...
M. Catherine McCabe, Jinho Lee, Abdur Chowdhury, D...
Sponsored search auctions provide a marketplace where advertisers can bid for millions of advertising opportunities to promote their products. The main difficulty facing the adver...
Image annotation has been an active research topic in recent years due to its potentially large impact on both image understanding and Web image search. In this paper, we target a...
Xirong Li, Le Chen, Lei Zhang, Fuzong Lin, Wei-Yin...
A virtual community is a group of people whose shared needs and/or interests are largely communicated within, and mediated by Webenabled interactions, e.g., within a Website. Whil...
Janet Ho, Monica M. C. Schraefel, Mark H. Chignell
List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...