The Web makes it possible for news readers to learn more about virtually any story that interests them. Media outlets and search engines typically augment their information with l...
Francisco Iacobelli, Larry Birnbaum, Kristian J. H...
Rapid pervasion of the web into users' daily lives has put much importance on capturing location-specific information on the web, due to the fact that most human activities o...
Chuang Wang, Xing Xie, Lee Wang, Yansheng Lu, Wei-...
Web search query logs contain traces of users’ search modifications. One strategy users employ is deleting terms, presumably to obtain greater coverage. It is useful to model a...
Video surrogates are meant to help people quickly make sense of the content of a video before downloading or seeking more detailed information. In this paper we present the result...
Abstract. This paper describes the new e-learning tool CHESt that allows students to search in a knowledge base for short (teaching) multimedia clips by using a semantic search eng...