Two approaches for integrating images into the framework of a database management system are presented. The classi cation approach preprocesses all images and attaches a semantic ...
In this paper, we describe UNED’s participation in the iCLEF 2005 track. We have compared two strategies for finding an answer using an interactive question answering system: i...
The ability of fast similarity search at large scale is of great importance to many Information Retrieval (IR) applications. A promising way to accelerate similarity search is sem...
ld is a prototype IR user interface. It implements visualizations of an abstract information space – fulltext. The presentation demonstrates a visual user interface for the prob...
This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform ...