In a traditional information retrieval system, it is assumed that queries can be posed about any topic. In reality, a large fraction of web queries are posed about a relatively sm...
A typical collection of personal information contains many documents and mentions many concepts (e.g., person names, events, etc.). In this environment, associative browsing betwe...
Jinyoung Kim, Anton Bakalov, David A. Smith, W. Br...
In this paper, we focus on a new application of mobile visual search: snapping a photo with a mobile device of a video playing on a TV screen to automatically retrieve and stream ...
David M. Chen, Ngai-Man Cheung, Sam S. Tsai, Vijay...
There is a growth in the popularity of social file sharing systems. This paper describes the design of Cattail, a social file sharing system for the enterprise. Through a ‘Recen...
N. Sadat Shami, Michael J. Muller, David R. Millen
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...