Similarity search has been widely used in many applications such as information retrieval, image data analysis, and time-series matching. Specifically, a similarity query retrieves...
Time-series data, which are a series of one-dimensional real numbers, have been studied in various database applications. In this paper, we extend the traditional similarity searc...
Seok-Lyong Lee, Seok-Ju Chun, Deok-Hwan Kim, Ju-Ho...
Trip planning search (TPS) represents an important class of queries in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In many real-world applications, TPS requests are issued with a number...
Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, Roger Zimm...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
Understanding the intent behind a user's query can help search engine to automatically route the query to some corresponding vertical search engines to obtain particularly re...
Jian Hu, Gang Wang, Frederick H. Lochovsky, Jian-T...