Query formulation is an essential part of successful information retrieval. The challenges in formulating effective queries are emphasized in web information search, because the w...
The `SemanticLIFE' system is designed to store, manage and retrieve ones lifetime's information entities. It enables the acquisition and storage of data while giving ann...
Mansoor Ahmed, Hanh Huu Hoang, Muhammad Shuaib Kar...
Query result caching is an important mechanism for search engine efficiency. In this study, we first review several query features that are used to determine the contents of a sta...
Long-term search history contains rich information about a user's search preferences. In this paper, we study statistical language modeling based methods to mine contextual i...
A typical way to perform video annotation requires to classify video elements (e.g. events and objects) according to some pre-defined ontology of the video content domain. Ontolo...