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COMAD
2009
14 years 10 months ago
Information Integration: Challenges and Approaches
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
Sharma Chakravarthy
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Compressing term positions in web indexes
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second on billions of pages, making query processing a major factor in their operating costs. This has led to a lot of resear...
Hao Yan, Shuai Ding, Torsten Suel
IM
2007
14 years 9 months ago
In-Degree and PageRank: Why Do They Follow Similar Power Laws?
PageRank is a popularity measure designed by Google to rank Web pages. Experiments confirm that PageRank values obey a power law with the same exponent as In-Degree values. This ...
Nelly Litvak, Werner R. W. Scheinhardt, Yana Volko...
MM
2009
ACM
221views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Using large-scale web data to facilitate textual query based retrieval of consumer photos
The rapid popularization of digital cameras and mobile phone cameras has lead to an explosive growth of consumer photo collections. In this paper, we present a (quasi) real-time t...
Yiming Liu, Dong Xu, Ivor W. Tsang, Jiebo Luo
WSDM
2009
ACM
115views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Discovering and using groups to improve personalized search
Personalized Web search takes advantage of information about an individual to identify the most relevant results for that person. A challenge for personalization lies in collectin...
Jaime Teevan, Meredith Ringel Morris, Steve Bush