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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"commercial search"”.
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An Automatic Commercial Search Application for TV Broadcasting Using Audio Fingerprinting
… for the advertisements to confirm whether their commercials are broadcasted as required in time and frequency. Consequently, a multimedia file search problem arises and it has drawn more and more attention in the past decade. In this thesis, we propose an automatic commercial search scheme using …
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Retrieval Performance in a Full Text Journal Article Database
… of the full text of journal articles for online searching will make abstracting and indexing obsolete and that search results with full text will be superior to the results of bibliographic searching. This study tested these assumptions by comparing results from searching the full text of journal …
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Scalability of Stepping Stones and Pathways
… who are in need of relevant answers for their search queries. IR encompasses various search models to address different requirements and has introduced a variety of supporting tools to improve effectiveness and efficiency. "Search" is the key focus of IR. The classic search methodology takes an …
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Opal: In Vivo Based Preservation Framework for Locating Lost Web Pages
… the collective behavior of web archives, commercial search engines, and research projects for the purpose of preservation. Opal servers learn from their experiences and are able to share their knowledge with other Opal servers using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata …
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Lazy Preservation: Reconstructing Websites from the Web Infrastructure
… to retrieve missing resources from the caches of commercial search engines. Inspired by these post hoc reconstruction attempts, this dissertation introduces the concept of lazy preservation{ digital preservation performed as a result of the normal operations of the Web Infrastructure (web …
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Improving Web Search Ranking Using the Internet Archive
Current web search engines retrieve relevant results only based on the latest content of web pages stored in their indices despite the fact that many web resources update frequently. We explore possible techniques and data sources for improving web search result ranking using web page historical …
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Semantic Selection of Internet Sources through SWRL Enabled OWL Ontologies
This research examines the problem of Information Overload (IO) and give an overview of various attempts to resolve it. Furthermore, argue that instead of fighting IO, it is advisable to start learning how to live with it. It is unlikely that in modern information age, where users are producer and …
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Searching for black girls: old traditions in new media
… present study addresses the issue of Internet search, a seemingly neutral and non-politicized technology, to look deeply at how Google mediates access to information on racialized and gendered identities in biased ways. Situated within critical race studies and critical information studies, …
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Entity recommendation and search in heterogeneous information networks
… I study and focus on entity recommendation and search related problems in heterogeneous information networks. I investigate and propose data mining methodologies to facilitate the construction of entity recommender systems and search engines for heterogeneous networks. In this thesis, I first …
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Part of speech N-grams for information retrieval
… in the last decades has driven intensive research and development into theoretical models of information and relevance, and their implementation into usable applications, such as commercial search engines. The majority of IR systems today typically rely on statistical manipulations of …
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National and international university departmental web site interlinking: a webometric analysis
… level is another relatively neglected research area. The research aim of this thesis is: firstly to validate departmental link data; secondly to identify whether and how link patterns differ along country and disciplinary lines amongst similar disciplines and similar countries. In order …
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Deception and defense from machine learning to supply chains
… from natural language processing pipelines to search engines to code compilers. Left undefended, these vulnerabilities enable many ill effects including uncurtailed online hate speech, disinformation campaigns, and software supply chain attacks. We begin by generating adversarial examples for …