Contextual advertising supports much of the Web's ecosystem today. User experience and revenue (shared by the site publisher ad the ad network) depend on the relevance of the...
This paper describes the participation of Columbus Project of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in the GeoCLEF 2006 (a cross-language geographical retrieval track which is part of Cr...
Zhisheng Li, Chong Wang 0002, Xing Xie, Xufa Wang,...
In this paper, we present an approach for speaker change detection in broadcast video using joint audio-visual scene change statistics. Our experiments indicate that using joint a...
In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
Background: Although there are a large number of thesauri for the biomedical domain many of them lack coverage in terms and their variant forms. Automatic thesaurus construction b...