We explore the application of a graph representation to model similarity relationships that exist among images found on the Web. The resulting similarity-induced graph allows us t...
Barbara Poblete, Benjamin Bustos, Marcelo Mendoza,...
Web caching is a technology for improving network traffic on the internet. It is a temporary storage of Web objects (such as HTML documents) for later retrieval. There are three s...
In this paper, we propose to model the blended search problem by assuming conditional dependencies among queries, VSEs and search results. The probability distributions of this mo...
A common limitation of many retrieval models, including the recently proposed axiomatic approaches, is that retrieval scores are solely based on exact (i.e., syntactic) matching o...
Search has arguably become the dominant paradigm for finding information on the World Wide Web. In order to build a successful search engine, there are a number of challenges that ...
Mehran Sahami, Vibhu O. Mittal, Shumeet Baluja, He...