UIUC participated in the HARD track in TREC 2004 and focused on the evaluation of a new method for identifying variable-length passages using HMMs. Most existing approaches to pas...
This paper presents a system that retrieves descriptive phrases of proper nouns from free text. Sentences holding the specified noun are ranked using a technique based on pattern ...
The human face is one of the most important objects in videos since it provides rich information for spotting certain people of interest, such as government leaders in news video,...
Thao Ngoc Nguyen, Thanh Duc Ngo, Duy-Dinh Le, Shin...
A number of projects are creating searchable digital libraries of printed books. These include the Million Book Project, the Google Book project and similar efforts from Yahoo an...
After retrieval, this simple strategy yield to an important improvement of the average precision: from 17.02 up to 35.80. Task II. Our approach is based on argumentative structurin...