Querying the Web today can be a frustrating activity because the results delivered by syntactically oriented search engines often do not match the intentions of the user. The DARP...
Grit Denker, Jerry R. Hobbs, David L. Martin, Srin...
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...
Duplicate and near-duplicate digital image matching is beneficial for image search in terms of collection management, digital content protection, and search efficiency. In this ...
Given a bounded universe {0, 1, . . . , U-1}, we show how to perform (successor) searches in O(log log ) expected time and updates in O(log log ) expected amortized time, where i...
Large databases with uncertain information are becoming more common in many applications including data integration, location tracking, and Web search. In these applications, ranki...