General-purpose search engines such as AltaVista and Lycos are notorious for returning irrelevant results in response to user queries. Consequently, thousands of specialized, topi...
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...
In this work we propose a method that retrieves a list of related queries given an initial input query. The related queries are based on the query log of previously issued queries...
In this paper we present the Infocious Web search engine [23]. Our goal in creating Infocious is to improve the way people find information on the Web by resolving ambiguities pre...
In this paper, we propose a method for mediatory summarization, which is a novel technique for facilitating users' assessments of the credibility of information on the Web. A...