Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...
Motion planning for robots with many degrees of freedom requires the exploration of an exponentially large configuration space. Single-query motion planners restrict exploration ...
Small-sample learning in image retrieval is a pertinent and interesting problem. Relevance feedback is an active area of research that seeks to find algorithms that are robust wi...
Charlie K. Dagli, ShyamSundar Rajaram, Thomas S. H...
We explore the relationship between time and relevance using TREC ad-hoc queries. A type of query is identified that favors very recent documents. We propose a time-based language...
Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...