In this paper, we develop a general framework for approximate nearest neighbor queries. We categorize the current approaches for nearest neighbor query processing based on either ...
Our objective is to improve the performance of keyword based image search engines by re-ranking their baseline results. To this end, we address three limitations of existing searc...
Researchers from the same lab often spend a considerable amount of time searching for published articles relevant to their current project. Despite having similar interests, they c...
In this paper, we propose to mine query hierarchies from clickthrough data, which is within the larger area of automatic acquisition of knowledge from the Web. When a user submits...
Dou Shen, Min Qin, Weizhu Chen, Qiang Yang, Zheng ...
People often seek information by asking other people even when they have access to vast reservoirs of information such as the Internet and libraries. This is because people are gr...