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WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Generating query substitutions
We introduce the notion of query substitution, that is, generating a new query to replace a user's original search query. Our technique uses modifications based on typical su...
Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Omid Madani, Wiley Grei...
ENC
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
QA on the Web: A Preliminary Study for Spanish Language
Finding accurate information on the web has become a challenge due to the increment in the number of documents available on line. Current search engines retrieve relevant document...
Alejandro Del-Castillo-Escobedo, Manuel Montes-y-G...
MM
2009
ACM
203views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
14 years 18 days ago
Distance metric learning from uncertain side information with application to automated photo tagging
Automated photo tagging is essential to make massive unlabeled photos searchable by text search engines. Conventional image annotation approaches, though working reasonably well o...
Lei Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, Ne...
COMAD
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Information Integration Across Heterogeneous Sources: Where Do We Stand and How to Proceed?
Today, information integration has assumed a completely different, complex connotation than what it used to be. The advent of the Internet, the proliferation of information source...
Aditya Telang, Sharma Chakravarthy, Yan Huang
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Optimizing web search using web click-through data
The performance of web search engines may often deteriorate due to the diversity and noisy information contained within web pages. User click-through data can be used to introduce...
Gui-Rong Xue, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Yong Yu, W...