Given an author-conference graph, how do we answer proximity queries (e.g., what are the most related conferences for John Smith?); how can we tailor the search result if the user...
The effectiveness of information retrieval systems is measured by comparing performance on a common set of queries and documents. Significance tests are often used to evaluate the...
Soboroff, Nicholas and Cahan recently proposed a method for evaluating the performance of retrieval systems without relevance judgments. They demonstrated that the system evaluat...
Information and specifically Web pages may be organized, indexed, searched, and navigated using various metadata aspects, such as keywords, categories (themes), and also space. Wh...
Albert Angel, Chara Lontou, Dieter Pfoser, Alexand...
This paper introduces a web image dataset created by NUS’s Lab for Media Search. The dataset includes: (1) 269,648 images and the associated tags from Flickr, with a total of 5,...