The Web as a global information space is developing from a Web of documents to a Web of data. This development opens new ways for addressing complex information needs. Search is n...
Haofen Wang, Thomas Penin, Kaifeng Xu, Junquan Che...
With the overwhelming number of reports on similar events originating from different sources on the web, it is often hard, using existing web search paradigms, to find the origi...
The lack of a large scale Chinese test collection is an obstacle to the Chinese information retrieval development. In order to address this issue, we built such a collection compos...
Nowadays, images have become widely available on the World Wide Web (WWW). It’s essential to develop effective ways for managing and retrieving such abundant images. Advantageou...
Web users often face a long waiting time for downloading Web pages. Although various technologies and techniques have been implemented to alleviate the situation and to comfort th...