In this paper we examine user queries with respect to diversity: providing a mix of results across different interpretations. Using two query log analysis techniques (click entrop...
Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson, Murad Abouammoh, Serg...
As the volume of multimedia data available on internet is tremendously increasing, the content-based similarity search becomes a popular approach to multimedia retrieval. The most...
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
Abstract. The rapid growth in the amount of XML data and the development of publish-subscribe systems have led to great interest in processing streaming XML data. We propose the Qs...
— In contrast to the traditional wireless sensor network (WSN) applications that perform only data collection and aggregation, new generation of information processing applicatio...