The number of personal multimedia objects, such as digital photographs and videos, are exploding on the web through popular sites such as Flickr, YouTube, and FaceBook hosting bil...
With the aim to improve the quality of gazetteers for geographic information retrieval systems, we present a method to detect place names employed by people submitting information...
Florian A. Twaroch, Philip D. Smart, Christopher B...
Personalized search systems have evolved to utilize heterogeneous features including document hyperlinks, category labels in various taxonomies and social tags in addition to free...
Abstract— Recent advances in graph-based search techniques derived from Kleinberg’s work [1] have been impressive. This paper further improves the graph-based search algorithm ...
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...