: Search engines--"web dragons"--are the portals through which we access society's treasure trove of information. They do not publish the algorithms they use to sort...
Cross-document coreference occurs when the same person, place, event, or concept is discussed in more than one text source. Computer recognition of this phenomenon is important be...
Face verification has many potential applications including
filtering and ranking image/video search results on
celebrities. Since these images/videos are taken under uncontrolle...
Xiaogang Wang (MIT), Cha Zhang (Microsoft Research...
: Everyone realizes how powerful the few big Web search engine companies have become, both in terms of financial resources due to soaring stock quotes and in terms of the still hid...
One of the major problems for search at Web scale is that the search results on the large scale data might be huge and the users have to browse to find the most relevant ones. Plus...
Xu Ren, Yi Zeng, Yulin Qin, Ning Zhong, Zhisheng H...