Search engine switching describes the voluntarily transition from one Web search engine to another. In this paper we present a study of search engine switching behavior that combi...
Among the vast numbers of images on the web are many duplicates and near-duplicates, that is, variants derived from the same original image. Such near-duplicates appear in many we...
Jun Jie Foo, Justin Zobel, Ranjan Sinha, Seyed M. ...
Due to the reliance on the textual information associated with an image, image search engines on the Web lack the discriminative power to deliver visually diverse search results. ...
Reinier H. van Leuken, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Ximena ...
We describe an approach for multi-modal characterization of social media by combining text features (e.g. tags as a prominent example of short, unstructured text labels) with spat...
The importance of named entities in information retrieval and knowledge management has recently brought interest in characterizing semantic relationships between entities. In this...