We simulate different architectures of a distributed Information Retrieval system on a very large Web collection, in order to work out the optimal setting for a particular set of r...
The problem of identifying deviating patterns in XML repositories has important applications in data cleaning, fraud detection, and stock market analysis. Current methods determine...
Use of semantic content is one of the major issues which needs to be addressed for improving image retrieval effectiveness. We present a new approach to classify images based on t...
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
Hyperlinks among webpages are very important information and are widely used for webpage clustering and webpage ranking. With the explosive growth in the number of webpages availab...
Hong Zhou, Yingcai Wu, Ming-Yuen Chan, Huamin Qu, ...