The rapid growth of the number of videos in YouTube provides enormous potential for users to find content of interest to them. Unfortunately, given the difficulty of searching vid...
Shumeet Baluja, Rohan Seth, D. Sivakumar, Yushi Ji...
Name ambiguity problem has been a challenging issue for a long history. In this paper, we intend to make a thorough investigation of the whole problem. Specifically, we formalize ...
One of the main hurdles towards a wide endorsement of ontologies is the high cost of constructing them. Reuse of existing ontologies offers a much cheaper alternative than buildin...
Integration of Web search with geographic information has recently attracted much attention. There are a number of local Web search systems enabling users to find locationspecific...
A staggering number of multimedia applications are being introduced every day. Yet, the inordinate delays encountered in retrieving multimedia documents make it difficult to use t...