XML information retrieval (XML-IR) systems utilize the logical structure of XML documents for retrieving relevant elements. From a practical point of view, displaying the search r...
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
The interfaces used by the top Web search engines have changed very little since the early days of Web search. These interfaces follow the traditional model of information retriev...
A number of researchers have been building high-level semantic concept detectors such as outdoors, face, building, etc., to help with semantic video retrieval. Using the TRECVID v...
Despite the fact that people are increasingly listening to music electronically, the core interface of the common tools for playing the music have had very little improvement. In ...