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EACL
2009
ACL Anthology
13 years 2 months ago
MINT: A Method for Effective and Scalable Mining of Named Entity Transliterations from Large Comparable Corpora
In this paper, we address the problem of mining transliterations of Named Entities (NEs) from large comparable corpora. We leverage the empirical fact that multilingual news artic...
Raghavendra Udupa, K. Saravanan, A. Kumaran, Jagad...
DAGSTUHL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Efficient multi-step query processing for EMD-based similarity
Abstract. Similarity search in large multimedia databases requires efficient query processing based on suitable similarity models. Similarity models consist of a feature extraction...
Ira Assent, Thomas Seidl
GCB
2006
Springer
99views Biometrics» more  GCB 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
Shape Distributions and Protein Similarity
: In this paper we describe a similarity model that provides the objective basis for clustering proteins of similar structure. More specifically, we consider the following variant ...
Stefan Canzar, Jan Remy
SIGMOD
1999
ACM
143views Database» more  SIGMOD 1999»
13 years 8 months ago
WALRUS: A Similarity Retrieval Algorithm for Image Databases
Traditional approaches for content-based image querying typically compute a single signature for each image based on color histograms, texture, wavelet transforms etc., and return...
Apostol Natsev, Rajeev Rastogi, Kyuseok Shim
ADC
2006
Springer
136views Database» more  ADC 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
A multi-step strategy for approximate similarity search in image databases
Many strategies for similarity search in image databases assume a metric and quadratic form-based similarity model where an optimal lower bounding distance function exists for fil...
Paul Wing Hing Kwan, Junbin Gao