A lot of research has been conducted by the database community on methods and techniques for efficient XPath processing, with great success. Despite the progress made, significant...
Similarity search is widely used in multimedia retrieval systems to find the most similar ones for a given object. Some similarity measures, however, are not metric, leading to e...
Leveraging information from relevance assessments has been proposed as an effective means for improving retrieval. We introduce a novel language modeling method which uses inform...
tion Abstract ChengXiang Zhai (Advisor: John Lafferty) Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University With the dramatic increase in online in...
The application of social network analysis techniques, along with graph visualization and interaction, for navigating syndicated web content, a.k.a webfeeds, is presented. Within ...