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ECCV
2008
Springer
16 years 8 months ago
Improving People Search Using Query Expansions
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
Thomas Mensink, Jakob J. Verbeek
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Threshold query optimization for uncertain data
The probabilistic threshold query (PTQ) is one of the most common queries in uncertain databases, where all results satisfying the query with probabilities that meet the threshold...
Yinian Qi, Rohit Jain, Sarvjeet Singh, Sunil Prabh...
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Efficiently querying rdf data in triple stores
Efficiently querying RDF [1] data is being an important factor in applying Semantic Web technologies to real-world applications. In this context, many efforts have been made to st...
Ying Yan, Chen Wang, Aoying Zhou, Weining Qian, Li...
CIKM
2007
Springer
16 years 23 days ago
Recognition and classification of noun phrases in queries for effective retrieval
It has been shown that using phrases properly in the document retrieval leads to higher retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we define four types of noun phrases and present an...
Wei Zhang, Shuang Liu, Clement T. Yu, Chaojing Sun...
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Summarizing local context to personalize global web search
The PC Desktop is a very rich repository of personal information, efficiently capturing user's interests. In this paper we propose a new approach towards an automatic persona...
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Claudiu S. Firan, Wolfgang...