The goal of distributed information retrieval is to support effective searching over multiple document collections. For efficiency, queries should be routed to only those collectio...
Abstract--With the proliferation of handheld devices, information access on mobile devices is a topic of growing relevance. This paper presents a system that allows the user to sea...
E. Chang, Frank Seide, Helen M. Meng, Zhuoran Chen...
We propose a novel and generic video/image reranking algorithm, IB reranking, which reorders results from text-only searches by discovering the salient visual patterns of relevant...
As the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) becomes more widespread, so does the need for effective information discovery on them. Recently proposed EMR standards are XML-based...
Users of text search engines are increasingly wary that their activities may disclose confidential information about their business or personal profiles. It would be desirable f...