The performance of parallel query processing in a cluster of index servers is crucial for modern web search systems. In such a scenario, the response time basically depends on the...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Ber...
We present a method for automated topic suggestion. Given a plain-text input document, our algorithm produces a ranking of novel topics that could enrich the input document in a m...
Recurrent event queries (REQ) constitute a special class of search queries occurring at regular, predictable time intervals. The freshness of documents ranked for such queries is ...
In this paper, we introduce a system named Argo which provides intelligent advertising made possible from users’ photo collections. Based on the intuition that user-generated ph...
Xin-Jing Wang, Mo Yu, Lei Zhang, Rui Cai, Wei-Ying...
With the advances in digital imagery, large accessible data storage, internet repositories, and image applications, information conveyed through images is gaining in importance. T...