Many techniques for improving search result quality have been proposed. Typically, these techniques increase average effectiveness by devising advanced ranking features and/or by...
Lidan Wang, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompso...
Enriching knowledge bases with multimedia information makes it possible to complement textual descriptions with visual and audio information. Such complementary information can he...
While social interactions are critical to understanding consumer behavior, the relationship between social and commerce networks has not been explored on a large scale. We analyze...
Named entities in topics are a major factor contributing to the quality of retrieval results. In this paper, we report on an analysis on the correlation between the number of named...
Content-based image retrieval plays an important role in many multimedia applications. Images are typically retrieved based on a given sample image, a sketch or a simple descripti...