The ability to aggregate huge volumes of queries over a large population of users allows search engines to build precise models for a variety of query-assistance features such as ...
This paper addresses the segmentation from an image of entities that have the form of a `network', i.e. the region in the image corresponding to the entity is composed of bran...
Ian H. Jermyn, Josiane Zerubia, Ting Peng, V&eacut...
In this paper, we discuss the the role of the retrieval component in an TREC style opinion question answering system. Since blog retrieval differs from traditional ad-hoc document...
Query performance prediction is aimed at predicting the retrieval effectiveness that a query will achieve with respect to a particular ranking model. In this paper, we study quer...
We present a query architecture in which join operators are decomposed into their constituent data structures (State Modules, or SteMs), and dataflow among these SteMs is managed ...
Vijayshankar Raman, Amol Deshpande, Joseph M. Hell...