With the proliferation of camera phones, new information retrieval applications will emerge. The image of a scene captured by a camera phone can be a query to a remote server to i...
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Keyword search is widely recognized as a convenient way to retrieve information from XML data. In order to precisely meet users' search concerns, we study how to effectively r...
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Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
Existing web search engines provide users with the ability to query an off-line database of indices in order to decide on an entry point for further manual navigation. Results are...