Current Information Retrieval systems use inverted index structures for efficient query processing. Due to the extremely large size of many data sets, these index structures are u...
It is generally believed that propagated anchor text is very important for effective Web search as offered by the commercial search engines. “Google Bombs” are a notable illus...
Current web image search engines still rely on user typing textual description: query word(s) for visual targets. As the queries are often short, general or even ambiguous, the im...
Shuo Wang, Feng Jing, Jibo He, Qixing Du, Lei Zhan...
Searching for the meaning of the word “personalization” on a popular search engine, one finds twenty-three different answers, including “the process of matching categorized...
Background: BLAST searches are widely used for sequence alignment. The search results are commonly adopted for various functional and comparative genomics tasks such as annotating...