Abstract. Increasing the number of peers in a peer-to-peer network usually increases the number of answers to a given query as well. While having more answers is nice in principle,...
Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uwe Thaden, Wolf-Ti...
The majority of the current information retrieval models weight the query concepts (e.g., terms or phrases) in an unsupervised manner, based solely on the collection statistics. I...
As user demands become increasingly sophisticated, search engines today are competing in more than just returning document results from the Web. One area of competition is providi...
Users’ search needs are often represented by words and images are retrieved according to such textual queries. Annotation words assigned to the stored images are most useful to ...
This paper introduces a web image dataset created by NUS’s Lab for Media Search. The dataset includes: (1) 269,648 images and the associated tags from Flickr, with a total of 5,...