To locate a video clip in large collections is very important for retrieval applications, especially for digital rights management. In this paper, we present a novel technique for...
Understanding the intent behind a user's query can help search engine to automatically route the query to some corresponding vertical search engines to obtain particularly re...
Jian Hu, Gang Wang, Frederick H. Lochovsky, Jian-T...
Our KNOWITALL system aims to automate the tedious process of extracting large collections of facts (e.g., names of scientists or politicians) from the Web in an autonomous, domain...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, A...
This paper presents a novel approach to automatically identify characters in films using audio visual cues and text analysis. The approach consists of three stages: (i) frontal f...
Databases of text and text-annotated data constitute a significant fraction of the information available in electronic form. Searching and browsing are the typical ways that users ...