Nowadays, as there is an increasing need to integrate the DBMS (for structured data) with Information Retrieval (IR) features (for unstructured data), DB-IR integration becomes one...
— We consider the problem of finding the relevant named entities in response to a search query over a given text corpus. Entity search can readily be used to augment conventiona...
There has been a lot of recent interest in mining patterns from graphs. Often, the exact structure of the patterns of interest is not known. This happens, for example, when molecu...
With the prevalence of digital cameras, more and more people have considerable digital images on their personal devices. As a result, there are increasing needs to effectively sea...
Changhu Wang, Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, HongJiang Zhan...
Image annotation has been an active research topic in recent years due to its potentially large impact on both image understanding and Web image search. In this paper, we target a...
Xirong Li, Le Chen, Lei Zhang, Fuzong Lin, Wei-Yin...