Aggregated search is the task of integrating results from potentially multiple specialized search services, or verticals, into the Web search results. The task requires predicting...
We study methods to initialize or bias different clustering methods using prior information about the "importance" of a keyword w.r.t. the whole document collection or a...
Web image search using text queries has received considerable attention. However, current state-of-the-art approaches require training models for every new query, and are therefore...
Josip Krapac, Moray Allan, Jakob Verbeek, Frédér...
The Web continues to grow at a tremendous rate. Search engines find it increasingly difficult to provide useful results. To manage this explosively large number of Web documents,...
Sandip Debnath, Tracy Mullen, Arun Upneja, C. Lee ...
A meta-search engine propagates user queries to its participant search engines following a server selection strategy. To facilitate server selection, the metasearch engine must ke...