This article describes an application of the partially observable Markov (POM) model to the analysis of a large scale commercial web search log. Mathematically, POM is a variant o...
We present a new active vision technique called zoom tracking. Zoom tracking is the continuous adjustment of a camera's focal length in order to keep a constant-sized image of...
This paper focuses on the problem of identifying influential users of micro-blogging services. Twitter, one of the most notable micro-blogging services, employs a social-networkin...
Due to their capability for expressing semantics and relationships among data objects, semi-structured documents have become a common way of representing domain knowledge. Compari...
Henry Tan, Tharam S. Dillon, Fedja Hadzic, Elizabe...
Queries describe the users' search intent and therefore they play an essential role in the context of ranking for information retrieval and Web search. However, most of exist...