— Results of queries by personal names often contain documents related to several people because of the namesake problem. In order to differentiate documents related to different...
We propose a novel approach to find aliases of a given name from the web. We exploit a set of known names and their aliases as training data and extract lexical patterns that conv...
Contextual retrieval is a critical technique for facilitating many important applications such as mobile search, personalized search, PC troubleshooting, etc. Despite of its impor...
We propose a new method for automated large scale gathering of Web images relevant to specified concepts. Our main goal is to build a knowledge base associated with as many conce...
With the prevalence of digital cameras, more and more people have considerable digital images on their personal devices. As a result, there are increasing needs to effectively sea...
Changhu Wang, Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, HongJiang Zhan...