Determining the semantic intent of web queries not only involves identifying their semantic class, which is a primary focus of previous works, but also understanding their semanti...
Data is increasingly being bought and sold online, and Webbased marketplace services have emerged to facilitate these activities. However, current mechanisms for pricing data are ...
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to automatically index digital home photos based on person identity. A person is identified by his/her face and clothes. The proposed met...
Seungji Yang, Kyong Sok Seo, Sang Kim, Yong Man Ro...
The rich dependency structure found in the columns of real-world relational databases can be exploited to great advantage, but can also cause query optimizers--which usually assum...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Paul B...
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...