Studies show that roughly one-third of searches that are performed on the web require the user to initiate subsequent searches. Bates [1] theorized that with every search the user...
Query expansion is extensively applied in information retrieval systems, such as search engines. Most conventional approaches to query expansion have been developed based on textua...
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Many databases have become Web-accessible through form-based search interfaces (i.e., HTML forms) that allow users to specify complex and precise queries to access the underlying ...
Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Yiyao Lu, Clement T. Yu, Zongh...
Scalable similarity search is the core of many large scale learning or data mining applications. Recently, many research results demonstrate that one promising approach is creatin...