We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...
We present a new method for attaching data to digital audio-visual (AV) documents. Our method is steganographic, i.e., a secondary data stream is integrated or embedded into a giv...
The method herein proposed detects text lines on handwritten pages which may include either lines oriented in several directions, erasures, or annotationsbetween main lines. The m...
Editing metadata for documents in a large collection is a long and menial task. Many metadata schemas exist, among which, of course, Dublin Core, and they are usually only partiall...
We consider the problem of producing a multi-document summary given a collection of documents. Since most successful methods of multi-document summarization are still largely extr...
John M. Conroy, Judith D. Schlesinger, Dianne P. O...