Searching for people on the Web is one of the most common query types to the web search engines today. However, when a person name is queried, the returned webpages often contain ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Rabia Nuray-Turan, Sharad M...
TalkMiner is a search engine for lecture webcasts. Lecture videos are processed to recover a set of distinct slide images and OCR is used to generate a list of indexable terms fro...
John Adcock, Matthew Cooper, Laurent Denoue, Hamed...
Online forums contain valuable human-generated information. End-users looking for information would like to find only those threads in forums where relevant information is present...
Despite the success of web search engines, search over large enterprise intranets still suffers from poor result quality. Earlier work [6] that compared intranets and the Internet...
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...