Web search engines exploit conjunctive queries and special ranking criteria which differ from the disjunctive queries typically used for ad-hoc retrieval. We wanted to asses the e...
The combination of evidence for Information Retrieval has been studied extensively in order to increase effectiveness. In this paper, we study the selective application of differe...
We are developing a cross-media information retrieval system, in which users can view specific segments of lecture videos by submitting text queries. To produce a text index, the ...
This paper describes a method of extracting katakana words and phrases, along with their English counterparts from non-aligned monolingual web search engine query logs. The method...
Web forums have become an important data resource for many web applications, but extracting structured data from unstructured web forum pages is still a challenging task due to bo...
Jiang-Ming Yang, Rui Cai, Yida Wang, Jun Zhu, Lei ...