Comparing and contrasting is an important strategy people employ to understand new situations and create solutions for new problems. Similar events can provide hints for problem s...
Extracting information from web pages is an important problem; it has several applications such as providing improved search results and construction of databases to serve user qu...
Paramveer S. Dhillon, Sundararajan Sellamanickam, ...
This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
Navigation through large multimedia collections that include videos and images still remains a hard problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel method to visualize and navigate t...
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...