Query-based web search is an integral part of many people’s daily activities. Most do not realize that their search history can be used to identify them (and their interests). I...
Subspace clustering and frequent itemset mining via “stepby-step” algorithms that search the subspace/pattern lattice in a top-down or bottom-up fashion do not scale to large ...
We explore the utility of different types of topic models for retrieval purposes. Based on prior work, we describe several ways that topic models can be integrated into the retrie...
Collaborative annotation tools are in widespread use. The metadata from these systems can be mined to induce semantic relationships among Web objects (sites, pages, tags, concepts...
Web-service-related techniques have become popular to improve system integration and interaction. In distributed and dynamic environment, web services’ availability has been reg...
Lingshuang Shao, Junfeng Zhao, Tao Xie, Lu Zhang, ...