Short assigned question-answering style tasks are often used as a probe to understand how users do search. While such assigned tasks are simple to test and are effective at elicit...
A query burst is a period of heightened interest of users on a topic which yields a higher frequency of the search queries related to it. In this paper we examine the behavior of s...
Though it has cost great research efforts for decades, object recognition is still a challenging problem. Traditional methods based on machine learning or computer vision are stil...
Xin-Jing Wang, Ming Liu, Lei Zhang, Yi Li, Wei-Yin...
Disambiguating person names in a set of documents (such as a set of web pages returned in response to a person name) is a key task for the presentation of results and the automatic...
The number of Web-databases has exploded during the last years. In order to justify the development of new information resources, it is essential to know if the use of existing re...