The presentation of search results on the web has been dominated by the textual form of document representation. On the other hand, the document's visual aspects such as the ...
Knowing the intent of a search query allows for more intelligent ways of retrieving relevant search results. Most of the recent work on automatic detection of query intent uses su...
Edith Law, Anton Mityagin, David Maxwell Chickerin...
Sensor networks have been widely used to collect data about the environment. When analyzing data from these systems, people tend to ask exploratory questions--they want to find su...
Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), similar to blogs, newsgroups, online forums, etc., are online broadcasting spaces where people can exchange ideas and make announcements. As BBS are b...
Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat the geogra...
Subodh Vaid, Christopher B. Jones, Hideo Joho, Mar...