The National Library of Medicine has been developing CervigramFinder, a Web-accessible prototype content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system for cervical cancer research, to retri...
George R. Thoma, Jose Jeronimo, L. Rodney Long, Sa...
Assessing the trustworthiness of reviews is a key issue for the maintainers of opinion sites such as TripAdvisor, given the rewards that can be derived from posting false or biase...
Collaborative Filtering (CF) requires user-rated training examples for statistical inference about the preferences of new users. Active learning strategies identify the most infor...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Ranking algorithms, whose goal is to appropriately order a set of objects/documents, are an important component of information retrieval systems. Previous work on ranking algorith...