This paper presents a face detection technique and its applications in image retrieval. Even though this face detection method has relatively high false positives and low detectio...
The early success of link-based ranking algorithms was predicated on the assumption that links imply merit of the target pages. However, today many links exist for purposes other ...
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 ...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Spam pages on the web use various techniques to artificially achieve high rankings in search engine results. Human experts can do a good job of identifying spam pages and pages wh...