Many web-search queries serve as the beginning of an exploration of an unknown space of information, rather than looking for a specific web page. To answer such queries effectiv...
It is difficult for users of mobile devices such as cellular phones equipped with a small screen and a poor input interface to browse Web pages designed for desktop PCs with large...
Web object is defined to represent any meaningful object embedded in web pages (e.g. images, music) or pointed to by hyperlinks (e.g. downloadable files). Users usually search for...
Recent years have witnessed an explosion in the availability of news articles on the World Wide Web. Although searchengines’ algorithms have made it easier to locate these docum...
Since we can hardly get semantics from the low-level features of the image, it is much more difficult to analyze the image than textual information on the Web. Traditionally, textu...