The wealth of information accessible on the Internet has grown exponentially since its advent. This mass of content must be systemically sifted to glean pertinent data, and the utilization of the collective intelligence of other users, or social information retrieval, is an innovative, emerging...

"[This book] is a pivotal reference source for the latest academic research on embedding and associating semantics with multimedia information to improve data retrieval techniques. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as automation, knowledge discovery, and social networking, this book...

Search engines, which receive approximately a million requests per day, play a vital role in finding and filtering the vast amount of data available on the Web. On the basis of some algorithm, a search engine decides the rank of the page content and displays the pages in that order. In the...