Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...
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...
Abstract. In this paper, a Fuzzy Dominant Texture Descriptor is proposed for semantically describing an image. This fuzzy descriptor is defined over a set of fuzzy sets modelling ...
Existing HTML mark-up is used only to indicate the structure and lay-out of documents, but not the document semantics. As a result web documents are difficult to be semantically p...
This paper describes our novel retrieval model that is based on contexts of query terms in documents (i.e., document contexts). Our model is novel because it explicitly takes into...
Ho Chung Wu, Robert W. P. Luk, Kam-Fai Wong, K. L....