Web image search is inspired by text search techniques; it mainly relies on indexing textual data that surround the image file. But retrieval results are often noisy and image pro...
There has been a great amount of work on query-independent summarization of documents. However, due to the success of Web search engines query-specific document summarization (que...
Social bookmarking services have become recently popular in the Web. Along with the rapid increase in the amount of social bookmarks, future applications could leverage this data f...
Yusuke Yanbe, Adam Jatowt, Satoshi Nakamura, Katsu...
This report describes the experiments of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Sydney at the TREC-2004 question answering evaluation exercise. Our system combines two ...
Kisuh Ahn, Johan Bos, Stephen Clark, Tiphaine Dalm...
Web search quality can vary widely across languages, even for the same information need. We propose to exploit this variation in quality by learning a ranking function on bilingua...