We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Aggregating search results from a variety of heterogeneous sources or verticals such as news, image and video into a single interface is a popular paradigm in web search. Although...
Ke Zhou, Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas, Joemon M. J...
Large video collections present a unique set of challenges to the search system designer. Text transcripts do not always provide an accurate index to the visual content, and the pe...
John Adcock, Matthew L. Cooper, Andreas Girgensohn...
Planning out maintenance tasks to increase the quality of Web applications can be difficult for a manager. First, it is hard to evaluate the precise effect of a task on quality. S...
Content-based image search on the Internet is a challenging problem, mostly due to the semantic gap between low-level visual features and high-level content, as well as the excess...