The world wide web has a wealth of information that is related to almost any text classification task. This paper presents a method for mining the web to improve text classificati...
We propose a simple yet eective approach to context sensitive synonym discovery for Web search queries based on co-click analysis; i.e., analyzing queries leading to clicking sam...
Finding visually identical images in large image collections is important for many applications such as intelligence propriety protection and search result presentation. Several a...
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
In order to return relevant search results, a search engine must keep its local repository synchronized to the Web, but it is usually impossible to attain perfect freshness. Hence...