Terms used in search queries often have multiple meanings. Consequently, search results corresponding to different meanings may be retrieved, making identifying relevant results in...
Results caching is an efficient technique for reducing the query processing load, hence it is commonly used in real search engines. This technique, however, bounds the maximum hit...
The publication time of a page can have a big impact on its relevance to a query, especially for time-sensitive pages such as news items. For news search engines, the publication ...
This paper presents a novel approach for searching images online using textual queries and presenting the resulting images based on both conceptual and visual similarities. Given a...
Grant Strong, Enamul Hoque, Minglun Gong, Orland H...
In high-dimensional and complex metric spaces, determining the nearest neighbor (NN) of a query object ? can be a very expensive task, because of the poor partitioning operated by...