Nowadays, searching information in the web or in any kind of document collection has become one of the most frequent activities. However, user queries can be formulated in a way th...
Searching for people on the Web is one of the most common query types to the web search engines today. However, when a person name is queried, the returned webpages often contain ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Rabia Nuray-Turan, Sharad M...
Background: While the pairwise alignments produced by sequence similarity searches are a powerful tool for identifying homologous proteins - proteins that share a common ancestor ...
Michael L. Sierk, Michael E. Smoot, Ellen J. Bass,...
Different from traditional information retrieval, both content and structure are critical to the success of Web information retrieval. In recent years, many relevance propagation ...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, Zheng Chen, W...
Searching for images of people is an essential task for image and video search engines. However, current search engines have limited capabilities for this task since they rely on ...