Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have recently proven to be effective for web queries. However, when initial queries have reasonably good quality, these techniqu...
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, ...
— recently, search engines become more critical for finding information over the World Wide Web where web content growing fast, the user's satisfaction of search engine resu...
Hamada M. Zahera, Gamal F. El-Hady, W. F. Abd El-W...
As semantic markup becomes ubiquitous, it will become important to be able to ask queries and obtain answers, using natural language (NL) expressions, rather than the keyword-based...
We seek to recognize the place depicted in a query image using a database of “street side” images annotated with geolocation information. This is a challenging task due to chan...