Static index pruning techniques aim at removing from the posting lists of an inverted file the references to documents which are likely to be not relevant for answering user querie...
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 ...
We present a data-driven approach to generating responses to Twitter status posts, based on phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation. We find that mapping conversational stim...
Query segmentation is essential to query processing. It aims to tokenize query words into several semantic segments and help the search engine to improve the precision of retrieva...
Chao Zhang, Nan Sun, Xia Hu, Tingzhu Huang, Tat-Se...
Effective peer selection for intelligent query routing is a challenge in collaborative peer-based Web search systems, especially unstructured networks that do not have any central...