Abstract-- Inverted files have been very successful for document retrieval, but sponsored search is different. Inverted files are designed to find documents that match the query (a...
Long-term search history contains rich information about a user's search preferences. In this paper, we study statistical language modeling based methods to mine contextual i...
In content-based image retrieval (CBIR), the user usually poses several labelled images and then the system attempts to retrieve all the images relevant to the target concept defi...
A distributed information retrieval system with resourceselection and resultset merging capability was used to search subsets of the GOV2 document corpus for the 2008 TREC Million...
Christopher T. Fallen, Gregory B. Newby, Kylie McC...
This paper presents an adaptive algorithm for learning the user profile. The user profile is learned incrementally and continuously based on user’s initial profile, his actions ...