Automated photo tagging is essential to make massive unlabeled photos searchable by text search engines. Conventional image annotation approaches, though working reasonably well o...
Lei Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, Ne...
Query suggestion has been an effective approach to help users narrow down to the information they need. However, most of existing studies focused on only popular/head queries. Si...
We present WSQ/DSQ (pronounced “wisk-disk”), a new approach for combining the query facilities of traditional databases with existing search engines on the Web. WSQ, for Web-S...
Multicore processors are an architectural paradigm shift that promises a dramatic increase in performance. But, they also bring an unprecedented level of complexity in algorithmic ...
Daniele Paolo Scarpazza, Oreste Villa, Fabrizio Pe...
Ambiguous queries constitute a significant fraction of search instances and pose real challenges to web search engines. With current approaches the top results for these queries ...