State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
Every user has a distinct background and a specific goal when searching for information on the Web. The goal of Web search personalization is to tailor search results to a particu...
A (directed) network of people connected by ratings or trust scores, and a model for propagating those trust scores, is a fundamental building block in many of today's most s...
Ramanathan V. Guha, Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan...
Current content-based video copy detection approaches mostly concentrate on the visual cues and neglect the audio information. In this paper, we attempt to tackle the video copy d...
Yang Liu, Wanlei Zhao, Chong-Wah Ngo, Changsheng X...
Social annotation has gained increasing popularity in many Web-based applications, leading to an emerging research area in text analysis and information retrieval. This paper is c...