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WSDM
2009
ACM
131views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Diversifying search results
We study the problem of answering ambiguous web queries in a setting where there exists a taxonomy of information, and that both queries and documents may belong to more than one ...
Rakesh Agrawal, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Alan Halverso...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Understanding web browsing behaviors through Weibull analysis of dwell time
Dwell time on Web pages has been extensively used for various information retrieval tasks. However, some basic yet important questions have not been sufficiently addressed, e.g., ...
Chao Liu, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
UJM at ImageCLEFwiki 2008
This paper reports our multimedia information retrieval experiments carried out for the ImageCLEF track (ImageCLEFwiki). The task is to answer to user information needs, i.e. quer...
Christophe Moulin, Cécile Barat, Mathias G&...
ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Refreshable tactile graphics applied to schoolbook illustrations for students with visual impairment
This article presents research on making schoolbook illustrations accessible for students with visual impairment. The MaskGen system was developed to interactively transpose illus...
Grégory Petit, Aude Dufresne, Vincent L&eac...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Acquisition of Vernacular Place Names from Web Sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...