Web search query logs contain traces of users’ search modifications. One strategy users employ is deleting terms, presumably to obtain greater coverage. It is useful to model a...
Abstract. The structural heterogeneity and complexity of XML repositories makes query formulation challenging for users who have little knowledge of XML. To assist its users, an XM...
We present a divide-and-merge methodology for clustering a set of objects that combines a top-down "divide" phase with a bottom-up "merge" phase. In contrast, ...
David Cheng, Santosh Vempala, Ravi Kannan, Grant W...
In order to become an effective complement to traditional Web-scale text-based image retrieval solutions, content-based image retrieval must address scalability and efficiency iss...
There is a great amount of information on the web that can not be accessed by conventional crawler engines. This portion of the web is usually called hidden web data. To be able t...