People are thirsty for medical information. Existing Web search engines often cannot handle medical search well because they do not consider its special requirements. Often a medi...
—Web-scale image search engines (e.g. Google Image Search, Bing Image Search) mostly rely on surrounding text features. It is difficult for them to interpret users’ search int...
Xiaoou Tang, Ke Liu, Jingyu Cui, Fang Wen, Xiaogan...
In our entry to the new HARD track, we have investigated two methods of interactively refining user search formulations. One method consists of asking the user to select a number ...
This paper addresses several problems associated with the specification of Web searches, and the retrieval, filtering, and rating of Web pages in order to improve the relevance, pr...
We query Web Image search engines with words (e.g., spring) but need images that correspond to particular senses of the word (e.g., flexible coil). Querying with polysemous words ...