Many websites with a large user base, e.g., websites of nonprofit organizations, do not have the financial means to install large web-servers or use specialized content distributi...
If an image should be retrieved by its subregions from a large image database, an immense number of possible queries will appear. Therefore, the index which encodes the spatial in...
The interfaces used by the top Web search engines have changed very little since the early days of Web search. These interfaces follow the traditional model of information retriev...
Electronic product catalogs are considered as one of the main components of e-commerce applications. Efficient processing of queries on product catalogs is important for customer ...
In TREC-10, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) participated in the Web track (ad hoc retrieval task and homepage finding task). The latest version of the Okapi system (Windows 2000 ve...
Jianfeng Gao, Guihong Cao, Hongzhao He, Min Zhang,...