A major obstacle that decreases the performance of text classifiers is the extremely high dimensionality of text data. To reduce the dimension, a number of approaches based on rou...
We propose a new Web search system that helps users clarify their information needs through interaction. The system represents the user's information needs using a query grap...
Query by video clip (QVC) has attracted wide research interests in multimedia information retrieval. In general, QVC may include feature extraction, similaritymeasure,databaseorgan...
The advent of social tagging systems has enabled a new community-based view of the Web in which objects like images, videos, and Web pages are annotated by thousands of users. Und...
When issuing user-specific queries, users often have a vaguely defined information need. Skyline queries identify the most "interesting" objects for users' incomplet...