The explosion of online content has made the management of such content non-trivial. Web-related tasks such as web page categorization, news filtering, query categorization, tag r...
Screen readers, the dominant assistive technology used by visually impaired people to access the Web, function by speaking out the content of the screen serially. Using screen rea...
Jalal Mahmud, Yevgen Borodin, I. V. Ramakrishnan, ...
Since the invention of the Web, the browser has become more and more powerful. By now, it is a programming and execution environment in itself. The predominant language to program...
Ghislain Fourny, Markus Pilman, Daniela Florescu, ...
General image retrieval is often carried out by a text-based search engine, such as Google Image Search. In this case, natural language queries are used as input to the search eng...
Sponsored search systems are tasked with matching queries to relevant advertisements. The current state-of-the-art matching algorithms expand the user's query using a variety...
Andrei Z. Broder, Peter Ciccolo, Evgeniy Gabrilovi...
Due to the reliance on the textual information associated with an image, image search engines on the Web lack the discriminative power to deliver visually diverse search results. ...
Reinier H. van Leuken, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Ximena ...
Measuring the similarity between semantic relations that hold among entities is an important and necessary step in various Web related tasks such as relation extraction, informati...
Music theme annotations would be really beneficial for supporting retrieval, but are often neglected by users while annotating. Thus, in order to support users in tagging and to f...
Tasks recognizing named entities such as products, people names, or locations from documents have recently received significant attention in the literature. Many solutions to thes...
The use of blogs to track and comment on real world (political, news, entertainment) events is growing. Similarly, as more individuals start relying on the Web as their primary in...