This work introduces a formal framework for the social acquisition of ontologies which are constructed dynamically from overhearing the possibly conflicting symbolic interaction o...
Sponsored search is one of the enabling technologies for today's Web search engines. It corresponds to matching and showing ads related to the user query on the search engine...
Several recent studies have found only a weak relationship between the performance of a retrieval system and the "success" achievable by human searchers. We hypothesize ...
We present an efficient system for video search that maximizes the use of human bandwidth, while at the same time exploiting the machine’s ability to learn in real-time from use...
Alexander G. Hauptmann, Wei-Hao Lin, Rong Yan, Jun...
Speech and typed text are two common input modalities for mobile phones. However, little research has compared them in their ability to support annotation and retrieval of digital...