Social media systems have encouraged end user participation in the Internet, for the purpose of storing and distributing Internet content, sharing opinions and maintaining relatio...
Jun Wang, Maarten Clements, Jie Yang, Arjen P. de ...
Okapi BM25 scoring of anchor text surrogate documents has been shown to facilitate effective ranking in navigational search tasks over web data. We hypothesize that even better r...
Social networks support efficient decentralized search: people can collectively construct short paths to a specified target in the network. Rank-based friendship—where the prob...
David Barbella, George Kachergis, David Liben-Nowe...
This paper investigates whether Web comments can be exploited for cross-media retrieval. Comparing Web items such as texts, images, videos, music, products, or personal profiles ...
In this paper, we describe a novel Web query processing approach with learning capabilities. Under this approach, user queries are in the form of keywords and search engines are e...