In order to increase retrieval precision, some new search engines provide manually verified answers to Frequently Asked Queries (FAQs). An underlying task is the identification of...
Modeling and recognizing landmarks at world-scale is a
useful yet challenging task. There exists no readily available
list of worldwide landmarks. Obtaining reliable visual
mode...
Yantao Zheng, Ming Zhao 0003, Yang Song, Hartwig A...
In this paper we propose a hierarchical clustering engine, called SnakeT, that is able to organize on-the-fly the search results drawn from 16 commodity search engines into a hier...
Many web-search queries serve as the beginning of an exploration of an unknown space of information, rather than looking for a specific web page. To answer such queries effectiv...
There has recently been an upsurge of interest in the possibilities of combining structured data and ad-hoc information retrieval from traditional hypertext. In this experiment, w...