We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...
Recommender systems have been subject to an enormous rise in popularity and research interest over the last ten years. At the same time, very large taxonomies for product classifi...
Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Georg Lausen, Lars Schmidt-Th...
Distributed hash tables (DHTs) are very efficient for querying based on key lookups. However, building huge term indexes, as required for IR-style keyword search, poses a scalabil...
Odysseas Papapetrou, Wolf Siberski, Wolfgang Nejdl
With digital still cameras, users can easily collect thousands of photos. We have created a photo management application with the goal of making photo organization and browsing si...
The directed graph representation of the World Wide Web has been extensively used to analyze the Web structure, behavior and evolution. However, those graphs are huge and do not ï...