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ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Joint Ranking for Multilingual Web Search
Ranking for multilingual information retrieval (MLIR) is a task to rank documents of different languages solely based on their relevancy to the query regardless of query’s langu...
Wei Gao, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Kam-Fai Wong
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
RuralCafe: web search in the rural developing world
The majority of people in rural developing regions do not have access to the World Wide Web. Traditional network connectivity technologies have proven to be prohibitively expensiv...
Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Jinyang Li
WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Web image learning for searching semantic concepts in image databases
Without textual descriptions or label information of images, searching semantic concepts in image databases is still a very challenging task. While automatic annotation techniques...
Chu-Hong Hoi, Michael R. Lyu
JCDL
2005
ACM
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15 years 12 months ago
Downloading textual hidden web content through keyword queries
An ever-increasing amount of information on the Web today is available only through search interfaces: the users have to type in a set of keywords in a search form in order to acc...
Alexandros Ntoulas, Petros Zerfos, Junghoo Cho
ACSC
2008
IEEE
16 years 24 days ago
An investigation on a community's web search variability
Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...
Mingfang Wu, Andrew Turpin, Justin Zobel