The multimedia information retrieval community has dedicated extensive research effort to the problem of content-based image retrieval (CBIR). However, these systems find their ma...
Tom Yeh, Brandyn White, Jose San Pedro, Boris Katz...
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
This paper explores the use of social annotations to improve web search. Nowadays, many services, e.g. del.icio.us, have been developed for web users to organize and share their f...
The currently booming search engine industry has determined many online organizations to attempt to artificially increase their ranking in order to attract more visitors to their ...
An approximate search query on a collection of strings finds those strings in the collection that are similar to a given query string, where similarity is defined using a given si...