Maximizing only the relevance between queries and documents will not satisfy users if they want the top search results to present a wide coverage of topics by a few representative...
Yi Liu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Michael R. Lyu, W...
Web image search has been explored and developed in academic as well as commercial areas for over a decade. To measure the similarity between Web images and user queries, most of ...
Ying Liu, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Lei Zhang, Wei-Yin...
Implicit feedback algorithms utilize interaction between searchers and search systems to learn more about users’ needs and interests than expressed in query statements alone. Th...
There has been lately an increased activity of publishing structured data in RDF due to the activity of the Linked Data community1 . The presence on the Web of such a huge informa...
Gianluca Correndo, Manuel Salvadores, Ian Millard,...
Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...