Among the vast numbers of images on the web are many duplicates and near-duplicates, that is, variants derived from the same original image. Such near-duplicates appear in many we...
Jun Jie Foo, Justin Zobel, Ranjan Sinha, Seyed M. ...
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Web search engines like Google have made us all smarter by providing ready access to the world's knowledge whenever we need to look up a fact, learn about a topic or evaluate...
One of the key components of current Web search engines is the document collector. This paper describes CoBWeb, an automatic document collector, whose architecture is distributed ...
Altigran Soares da Silva, Eveline A. Veloso, Paulo...
We propose a method to evaluate queries using a last-resort semantic cache in a distributed Web search engine. The cache stores a group of frequent queries and for each of these qu...