Personalized Web search takes advantage of information about an individual to identify the most relevant results for that person. A challenge for personalization lies in collectin...
Existing Web image search engines index images by textual descriptions including filename, image caption, surrounding text, etc. However, the textual description available on the W...
This paper compares the efficacy and efficiency of different clustering approaches for selecting a set of exemplar images, to present in the context of a semantic concept. We eval...
Purpose – Web search engines are frequently used by people to locate information on the Internet. However, not all queries have an informational goal. Instead of information, so...
Ashish Kathuria, Bernard J. Jansen, Carolyn Hafern...
Understanding the intent underlying user queries may help personalize search results and improve user satisfaction. In this paper, we develop a methodology for using ad clickthroug...
Azin Ashkan, Charles L. A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtei...