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WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
The anatomy of a large-scale social search engine
We present Aardvark, a social search engine. With Aardvark, users ask a question, either by instant message, email, web input, text message, or voice. Aardvark then routes the que...
Damon Horowitz, Sepandar D. Kamvar
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Deriving knowledge from figures for digital libraries
Figures in digital documents contain important information. Current digital libraries do not summarize and index information available within figures for document retrieval. We pr...
Xiaonan Lu, James Ze Wang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee...
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
If I Had a Million Queries
As document collections grow larger, the information needs and relevance judgments in a test collection must be well-chosen within a limited budget to give the most reliable and ro...
Ben Carterette, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Image based gisting in CLIR
In this paper, we describe research which could lead to a novel approach to gathering an overview of a document in a foreign language. The research explores how much of the meanin...
Mark Sanderson, Robert Pasley
CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Computing the top-k maximal answers in a join of ranked lists
Complex search tasks that utilize information from several data sources, are answered by integrating the results of distinct basic search queries. In such integration, each basic ...
Mirit Shalem, Yaron Kanza