The field of market basket analysis, the search for meaningful associations in customer purchase data, is one of the oldest areas of data mining. The typical solution involves th...
We present a class of web queries whose result is a multi-column relation instead of a collection of unstructured documents as in standard web search. The user specifies the query...
We introduce a method for image retrieval that leverages the implicit information about object importance conveyed by the list of keyword tags a person supplies for an image. We p...
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
Web forums have become an important data resource for many web applications, but extracting structured data from unstructured web forum pages is still a challenging task due to bo...
Jiang-Ming Yang, Rui Cai, Yida Wang, Jun Zhu, Lei ...