Measuring the similarity between implicit semantic relations is an important task in information retrieval and natural language processing. For example, consider the situation whe...
Blog/news search engines are very important channels to reach information about the real-time happenings. In this paper, we study the popular queries collected over one year perio...
General purpose Web search engines are becoming ineffective due to the rapid growth and changes in the contents of the World Wide Web. Meta-search engines help a bit by having a b...
Leo Yuen, Matthew Chang, Ying Kit Lai, Chung Keung...
Location-based information contained in publicly available GIS databases is invaluable for many applications such as disaster response, national infrastructure protection, crime a...
Multimedia information retrieval is a highly diverse field. A variety of data types, research problems, methodologies are involved. Researchers in the field come from very diff...
James Ze Wang, Nozha Boujemaa, Alberto Del Bimbo, ...