In this paper we investigate the task of Entity Ranking on the Web. Searchers looking for entities are arguably better served by presenting a ranked list of entities directly, rat...
Rianne Kaptein, Pavel Serdyukov, Arjen P. de Vries...
Information retrieval systems have typically concentrated on retrieving a set of documents which are relevant to a user's query. This paper describes a system that attempts t...
Traditional information retrieval models assume that users express their information needs via text queries (i.e., their "talk"). In this poster, we consider Web browsin...
Mikhail Bilenko, Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson...
Images and videos can be indexed by multiple features at different levels, such as color, texture, motion, and text annotation. Organizing this information into a system so that u...
In this paper, we propose a new strategy with time granularity reasoning for utilizing temporal information in topic tracking. Compared with previous ones, our work has four disti...