Abstract--Web 2.0 users have many choices of contenthosting or application-service providers (CSPs). It can be difficult for a user to share content with a set of real-life friends...
Entity search, a significant departure from page-based retrieval, finds data, i.e., entities, embedded in documents directly and holistically across the whole collection. This pap...
Finding similar images in a large database is an important, but often computationally expensive, task. In this paper, we present a two-tier similar-image retrieval system with the...