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RIAO
2004
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Mining Textual Data through Term Variant Clustering : the TermWatch system
We present a system for mapping the structure of research topics in a corpus. TermWatch portrays the "aboutness" of a corpus of scientific and technical publications by ...
Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, Eric SanJuan
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Image Understanding using Domain Knowledge
Nicolas Zlatoff, Bruno Tellez, Atilla Baskurt
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Multilingual document clusters discovery
Cross Language Information Retrieval community has brought up search engines over multilingual corpora, and multilingual text categorization systems. In this paper, we focus on th...
Benoît Mathieu, Romaric Besançon, Chr...
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Retrieving what's relevant in audio and video: statistics and linguistics in combination
We present some of the technology developed at StreamSage for indexing and retrieving audio/video data. A primary difficulty of this task is precise extraction of the passages rel...
Anthony Davis, Philip Rennert, Robert Rubinoff, Ti...
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Cross-Language Image Retrieval via Spoken Query
This paper studies cross-language cross-medium information retrieval. We introduce several approaches to unify the languages and media of queries and documents. We experiment on c...
Wen-Cheng Lin, Ming-Shun Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Monitoring User-System Performance in Interactive Retrieval Tasks
Monitoring user-system performance in interactive search is a challenging task. Traditional measures of retrieval evaluation, based on recall and precision, are not of any use in ...
Liudmila V. Boldareva, Arjen P. de Vries, Djoerd H...
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Integrating XLink and XPath to Retrieve Structured Multimedia Documents in Digital Libraries
To support the retrieval of multimedia data according to user information needs, multimedia information retrieval in digital libraries must be based on semantics and not just prim...
Zhigang Kong, Mounia Lalmas
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Chinese Character Expansion for Retrieving Japanese Paraphrases
This paper proposes two methods of query expansion for retrieving paraphrase candidates indexed by Kanzi (Chinese) characters. The idea is to calculate similarity between Kanzi ch...
Takenobu Tokunaga, Yoshiki Tezuka, Hozumi Tanaka
RIAO
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Improving the Precision of a Closed-Domain Question-Answering System with Semantic Information
This paper presents our experiments in applying semantic information to improve the precision of the information retrieval module in a closed-domain question-answering system. Tha...
Hai Doan-Nguyen, Leila Kosseim