In this paper we explore the use of parsimonious language models for web retrieval. These models are smaller thus more efficient than the standard language models and are therefor...
While we expect to discover knowledge in the texts available on the Web, such discovery usually requires many complex analysis steps, most of which require different text handling...
The wealth of information available on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers. While web-based question answering becomes an emerging topic in recent ye...
Characterizing the relationship that exists between a person's social group and his/her personal behavior has been a long standing goal of social network analysts. In this pa...
Image annotation has been an active research topic in recent years due to its potentially large impact on both image understanding and Web image search. In this paper, we target a...
Xirong Li, Le Chen, Lei Zhang, Fuzong Lin, Wei-Yin...