Organizing Web search results into clusters facilitates users' quick browsing through search results. Traditional clustering techniques are inadequate since they don't g...
In this paper, we demonstrate a novel landmark photo search and browsing system, Agate, which ranks landmark image search results considering their relevance, diversity and qualit...
Yuheng Ren, Mo Yu, Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Wei-Y...
Abstract. In many organizations, it is common to control access to confidential information based on the need-to-know principle; The requests for access are authorized only if the ...
Relevance feedback has been demonstrated to be an effective strategy for improving retrieval accuracy. The existing relevance feedback algorithms based on language models and vect...
We consider the problem of query plan optimization in information brokers. Information brokers are programs that facilitate access to collections of information sources by hiding ...