Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
Most real world engineering design optimisation approaches reported in the literature aim to find the best set of solutions using computationally expensive quantitative (QT ) mode...
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...
It has been observed that precision increases with collection size. One explanation could be that the redundancy of information increases, making it easier to find multiple docum...
One of the main challenges in interactive concept-based video search is the insufficient relevant sample problem, especially for queries with complex semantics. To address this pr...
Jin Yuan, Zheng-Jun Zha, Zhengdong Zhao, Xiangdong...