Nearest neighbor queries are important in many settings, including spatial databases (Find the k closest cities) and multimedia databases (Find the k most similar images). Previou...
In this paper we present the design and implementation of a distributed index architecture to facilitate metadata discovery on large networks. Many current information discovery s...
In this paper, we present the system MULINEX, a fully implemented system which supports cross-lingual search of the WWW. Users can formulate, expand and disambiguate queries, filt...
Joanne Capstick, Abdel Kader Diagne, Gregor Erbach...
Combating Web spam is one of the greatest challenges for Web search engines. State-of-the-art anti-spam techniques focus mainly on detecting varieties of spam strategies, such as ...
Chao Wei, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun...
Despite several efforts to make search engines more childfriendly, children still have trouble using systems that require keyboard input. We present TeddIR: a system using a tangi...
Michel Jansen, Wim Bos, Paul E. van der Vet, Theo ...