Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges as they need to process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents. To deal with this heavy workloa...
Accurate topical classification of user queries allows for increased effectiveness and efficiency in general-purpose web search systems. Such classification becomes critical if th...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2008 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
A system that segments and labels tabla strokes from real performances is described. Performance is evaluated on a large database taken from three performers under different recor...
It has become a promising direction to measure similarity of Web search queries by mining the increasing amount of clickthrough data logged by Web search engines, which record the...
Qiankun Zhao, Steven C. H. Hoi, Tie-Yan Liu, Soura...