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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Using graphics processors for high-performance IR query processing
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...
Shuai Ding, Jinru He, Hao Yan, Torsten Suel
WSDM
2010
ACM
322views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Inferring Search Behaviors Using Partially Observable Markov (POM) Model
This article describes an application of the partially observable Markov (POM) model to the analysis of a large scale commercial web search log. Mathematically, POM is a variant o...
Kuansan Wang, Nikolas Gloy, Xiaolong Li
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
144views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
TV Commercial Classification by using Multi-Modal Textual Information
In this paper, we propose an approach for TV commercial video classification by the categories of advertised products or services (e.g. automobiles, healthcare products, etc). Sin...
Yantao Zheng, Lingyu Duan, Qi Tian, Jesse S. Jin
GIS
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Location disambiguation in local searches using gradient boosted decision trees
Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...
Ritesh Agrawal, James G. Shanahan
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Why searchers switch: understanding and predicting engine switching rationales
Search engine switching is the voluntary transition between Web search engines. Engine switching can occur for a number of reasons, including user dissatisfaction with search resu...
Qi Guo, Ryen W. White, Yunqiao Zhang, Blake Anders...