Given a user keyword query, current Web search engines return a list of individual Web pages ranked by their "goodness" with respect to the query. Thus, the basic unit fo...
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li
A major hardness of processing searches issued in the form of keywords on structured data is the ambiguity problem. A set of keywords itself is not a complete piece of information...
In the area of image retrieval, post-retrieval processing is often used to refine the retrieval results to better satisfy users’ requirements. Previous methods mainly focus on p...
We consider the problem of clustering Web image search results. Generally, the image search results returned by an image search engine contain multiple topics. Organizing the resu...
Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Zhiwei Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Ji-R...
Search engines make it easy to check facts online, but finding some specific kinds of information sometimes proves to be difficult. We studied the behavioral signals that suggest ...