Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
The use of cellular data networks is increasingly popular due to the widespread deployment of 3G technologies and the rapid adoption of smartphones, such as iPhone and GPhone. Bes...
Through the Internet and the World-Wide Web, a vast number of information sources has become available, which offer information on various subjects by different providers, often i...
In commerce search, the set of products returned by a search engine often forms the basis for all user interactions leading up to a potential transaction on the web. Such a set of...
Uploading tourist photographs is a popular activity on photo sharing platforms. The manual annotation of these images is a tedious process and the users often upload their images ...