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SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 21 days ago
The economics in interactive information retrieval
Searching is inherently an interactive process usually requiring numerous iterations of querying and assessing in order to find the desired amount of relevant information. Essent...
Leif Azzopardi
MM
2009
ACM
221views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Using large-scale web data to facilitate textual query based retrieval of consumer photos
The rapid popularization of digital cameras and mobile phone cameras has lead to an explosive growth of consumer photo collections. In this paper, we present a (quasi) real-time t...
Yiming Liu, Dong Xu, Ivor W. Tsang, Jiebo Luo
VLDB
2005
ACM
93views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
Indexing Mixed Types for Approximate Retrieval
In various applications such as data cleansing, being able to retrieve categorical or numerical attributes based on notions of approximate match (e.g., edit distance, numerical di...
Liang Jin, Nick Koudas, Chen Li, Anthony K. H. Tun...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Compare&contrast: using the web to discover comparable cases for news stories
Comparing and contrasting is an important strategy people employ to understand new situations and create solutions for new problems. Similar events can provide hints for problem s...
Jiahui Liu, Earl Wagner, Larry Birnbaum
ICDM
2008
IEEE
142views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
Unsupervised Face Annotation by Mining the Web
Searching for images of people is an essential task for image and video search engines. However, current search engines have limited capabilities for this task since they rely on ...
Duy-Dinh Le, Shin'ichi Satoh