This paper describes the THISL system that participated in the TREC-7 evaluation, Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track, and presents the results obtained, together with some anal...
Dave Abberley, Steve Renals, Gary Cook, Anthony J....
Given a query image of an object, our objective is to retrieve all instances of that object in a large (1M+) image database. We adopt the bag-of-visual-words architecture which ha...
Ondrej Chum, James Philbin, Josef Sivic, Michael I...
Text retrieval from broadcast news video is unsatisfactory, because a transcript word frequently does not directly ‘describe’ the shot when it was spoken. Extending the retriev...
Pseudo-feedback-based automatic query expansion yields effective retrieval performance on average, but results in performance inferior to that of using the original query for many...
User generated content is characterized by short, noisy documents, with many spelling errors and unexpected language usage. To bridge the vocabulary gap between the user's in...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke