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ISVC
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Organizing and Browsing Image Search Results Based on Conceptual and Visual Similarities
This paper presents a novel approach for searching images online using textual queries and presenting the resulting images based on both conceptual and visual similarities. Given a...
Grant Strong, Enamul Hoque, Minglun Gong, Orland H...
PVLDB
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Hyper-local, directions-based ranking of places
Studies find that at least 20% of web queries have local intent; and the fraction of queries with local intent that originate from mobile properties may be twice as high. The eme...
Petros Venetis, Hector Gonzalez, Christian S. Jens...
GIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Geographic features in web search retrieval
We conduct large-scale search engine relevance experiments, using the 12% of queries that contain placenames, matching the placenames to places in the documents, and examining the...
Rosie Jones, Ahmed Hassan, Fernando Diaz
DEXA
2010
Springer
230views Database» more  DEXA 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Hybrid Indexing and Seamless Ranking of Spatial and Textual Features of Web Documents
Abstract. There is a significant commercial and research interest in locationbased web search engines. Given a number of search keywords and one or more locations that a user is in...
Ali Khodaei, Cyrus Shahabi, Chen Li
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
232views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
14 years 7 months ago
To search or to crawl?: towards a query optimizer for text-centric tasks
Text is ubiquitous and, not surprisingly, many important applications rely on textual data for a variety of tasks. As a notable example, information extraction applications derive...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay ...