Existing Web image search engines index images by textual descriptions including filename, image caption, surrounding text, etc. However, the textual description available on the W...
In our participation to the 2010 LogCLEF track we focused on the analysis of the European Library (TEL) logs and in particular we experimented with the identification of the natura...
Three methods are proposed to classify queries by intent (CQI), e.g., navigational, informational, commercial, etc. Following mixed-initiative dialog systems, search engines shoul...
Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
Abstract. It the becomes possible that users can get kinds of information by just inputting search keyword(s) representing the topic which users are interested in. But it is not al...