Online image repositories such as Flickr contain hundreds of millions of images and are growing quickly. Along with that the needs for supporting indexing, searching and browsing ...
User modeling for information retrieval has mostly been studied to improve the effectiveness of information access in centralized repositories. In this paper we explore user model...
—Data fusion is the process of integrating multiple sources of information such that their combination yields better results than if the data sources are used individually. This ...
Ambiguous queries constitute a significant fraction of search instances and pose real challenges to web search engines. With current approaches the top results for these queries ...
Document clustering has long been an important problem in information retrieval. In this paper, we present a new clustering algorithm ASI1, which uses explicitly modeling of the s...