Users frequently modify a previous search query in hope of retrieving better results. These modifications are called query reformulations or query refinements. Existing research h...
Random walk graph kernel has been used as an important tool for various data mining tasks including classification and similarity computation. Despite its usefulness, however, it...
In this paper we propose a domain partitioning RankBoost approach for face recognition. This method uses Local Gabor Binary Pattern Histogram (LGBPH) features for face representat...
Update summarization aims to create a summary over a topic-related multi-document dataset based on the assumption that the user has already read a set of earlier documents of the ...
Distributed heterogeneous search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers d...