Microblogs have become an important source of information for the purpose of marketing, intelligence, and reputation management. Streams of microblogs are of great value because o...
Social tags describe images from many aspects including the visual content observable from the images, the context and usage of images, user opinions and others. Not all tags are ...
This paper introduces a new approach to provide users with solutions to explore a domain via an information space. A key point in our approach is that information searching and ex...
E-commerce sites can have large, essentially unbounded, catalogs. With large catalogs comes increasing difficulty for buyers in making use of standard search and browsing faciliti...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...