Handheld computing devices are becoming highly connected devices with high capacity storage. This has resulted in their being able to support storage of, and access to, personal p...
Cathal Gurrin, Gareth J. F. Jones, Hyowon Lee, Nei...
Existing web search engines provide users with the ability to query an off-line database of indices in order to decide on an entry point for further manual navigation. Results are...
The Internet plays host to many millions of documents and images and is increasing in size all the time. As a result locating web content is becoming increasingly difficult for us...
The rapidity with which digital information, particularly video is being generated, has necessitated the development of tools for efficient search of these digital media. Content...
Shih-Fu Chang, William Chen, Horace J. Meng, Hari ...
Noun phrases in queries are identified and classified into four types: proper names, dictionary phrases, simple phrases and complex phrases. A document has a phrase if all content...