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MM
2009
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Descriptive visual words and visual phrases for image applications
The Bag-of-visual Words (BoW) image representation has been applied for various problems in the fields of multimedia and computer vision. The basic idea is to represent images as ...
Shiliang Zhang, Qi Tian, Gang Hua, Qingming Huang,...
UAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Inferring Informational Goals from Free-Text Queries: A Bayesian Approach
People using consumer software applications typically do not use technical jargon when querying an online database of help topics. Rather, they attempt to communicate their goals ...
David Heckerman, Eric Horvitz
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Robust Interpretation of User Requests for Text Retrieval in a Multimodal Environment
We describe a parser for robust and flexible interpretation of user utterances in a multi-modal system for web search in newspaper databases. Users can speak or type, and they can...
Alexandra Klein, Estela Puig-Waldmüller, Hara...
ERCIMDL
2001
Springer
132views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2001»
13 years 9 months ago
A Combined Phrase and Thesaurus Browser for Large Document Collections
A hierarchical browsing interface to a document collection can be constructed by identifying the phrases that recur in the full text of the documents and structuring them into a h...
Gordon W. Paynter, Ian H. Witten