Many vertical search tasks such as local search focus on specific domains. The meaning of relevance in these verticals is domain-specific and usually consists of multiple well-d...
Changsung Kang, Xuanhui Wang, Yi Chang, Belle L. T...
Personalized information agents can help overcome some of the limitations of communal Web information sources such as portals and search engines. Two important components of these...
Finding topic experts on microblogging sites with millions of users, such as Twitter, is a hard and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose and investigate a new methodolog...
Search engines are used to return a long list of hundreds or even thousands of videos in response to a query topic. Efficient navigation of videos becomes difficult and users ofte...
Although most of existing research usually detects events by analyzing the content or structural information of Web documents, a recent direction is to study the usage data. In th...