Nowadays the Web represents a growing collection of an enormous amount of contents where the need for better ways to find and organize the available data is becoming a fundamental...
Francesco Ronzano, Andrea Marchetti, Maurizio Tesc...
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
—Image segmentation plays an important role in image analysis and computer vision system. Among all segmentation techniques, the automatic thresholding methods are widely used be...
In the Trading Agent Competition Ad Auctions Game, agents compete to sell products by bidding to have their ads shown in a search engine's sponsored search results. We report...
In this paper, we propose to mine query hierarchies from clickthrough data, which is within the larger area of automatic acquisition of knowledge from the Web. When a user submits...
Dou Shen, Min Qin, Weizhu Chen, Qiang Yang, Zheng ...