Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Image retrieval on the Web requires that important (authoritative) images satisfying the query selection criteria are assigned higher ranking over other relevant images. PicASHOW ...
Epimenidis Voutsakis, Euripides G. M. Petrakis, Ev...
As users enter web queries, real-time query expansion (RTQE) interfaces offer suggestions based on an index garnered from query logs. In selecting a suggestion, users can potentia...
— This paper presents the prototype of an expert peering system for information exchange in the knowledge society. Our system realizes an intelligent, real-time search engine for...
Christian Bauckhage, Tansu Alpcan, Sachin Agarwal,...
Anecdotal evidence suggests that story-level information is important for the speech component of video retrieval. In this paper we perform a systematic examination of the combina...