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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Choosing your own adventure: automatic taxonomy generation to permit many paths
A taxonomy organizes concepts or topics in a hierarchical structure and can be created manually or via automated systems. A major drawback of taxonomies is that they require users...
Xiaoguang Qi, Dawei Yin, Zhenzhen Xue, Brian D. Da...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Spatial variation in search engine queries
Local aspects of Web search -- associating Web content and queries with geography -- is a topic of growing interest. However, the underlying question of how spatial variation is m...
Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, Jasm...
TREC
2008
13 years 8 months ago
UTDallas at TREC 2008 Blog Track
This paper describes our participation in the 2008 TREC Blog track. Our system consists of 3 components: data preprocessing, topic retrieval, and opinion finding. In the topic ret...
Bin Li, Feifan Liu, Yang Liu
SIGIR
1999
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
From Reading to Retrieval: Freeform Ink Annotations as Queries
User interfaces for digital libraries tend to focus on retrieval: users retrieve documents online, but then print them out and work with them on paper. One reason for printing doc...
Gene Golovchinsky, Morgan N. Price, Bill N. Schili...
ISVC
2010
Springer
13 years 5 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...