Search engines represent a key component of Web economy these days. Despite that, there is not much technical literature available on their design, fine tuning, and internal oper...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ramurti A. Barbosa, Paulo B...
Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...
Link analysis is a key technology in contemporary web search engines. Most of the previous work on link analysis only used information from one snapshot of web graph. Since commer...
Lei Yang, Lei Qi, Yan-Ping Zhao, Bin Gao, Tie-Yan ...
The vast majority of the features used in today’s commercially deployed image search systems employ techniques that are largely indistinguishable from text-document search – t...
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