We present an efficient system for video search that maximizes the use of human bandwidth, while at the same time exploiting the machine’s ability to learn in real-time from use...
Alexander G. Hauptmann, Wei-Hao Lin, Rong Yan, Jun...
This article describes an application of the partially observable Markov (POM) model to the analysis of a large scale commercial web search log. Mathematically, POM is a variant o...
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...
Abstract—Extensive work has been devoted to private information retrieval and privacy preserving data mining. To protect user privacy from search engines, however, most current a...
Shaozhi Ye, Shyhtsun Felix Wu, Raju Pandey, Hao Ch...
We propose a method to evaluate queries using a last-resort semantic cache in a distributed Web search engine. The cache stores a group of frequent queries and for each of these qu...