User browsing information, particularly their non-search related activity, reveals important contextual information on the preferences and the intent of web users. In this paper, ...
Click data captures many users’ document preferences for a query and has been shown to help significantly improve search engine ranking. However, most click data is noisy and of...
In this paper, we study the use of XML tagged keywords (or simply key-tags) to search an XML fragment in a collection of XML documents. We present techniques that are able to empl...
Feature aggregation is a critical technique in content-based image retrieval systems that employ multiple visual features to characterize image content. One problem in feature aggr...
In this paper, the geometry of a general class of projections from ??? to ?! is examined, as a generalization of classic multiple view geometry in computer vision. It is shown that...