—In this paper we present a scalable and distributed system for image retrieval based on visual features and annotated text. This system is the core of the SAPIR project. Its arc...
Emerging applications such as personalized portals, enterprise search and web integration systems often require keyword search over semi-structured views. However, traditional inf...
Feng Shao, Lin Guo, Chavdar Botev, Anand Bhaskar, ...
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Ranking a set of retrieved documents according to their relevance to a given query has become a popular problem at the intersection of web search, machine learning, and informatio...
Web communities are web virtual broadcasting spaces where people can freely discuss anything. While such communities function as discussion boards, they have even greater value as...