Traditional information retrieval techniques based on keyword search help to identify a ranked set of relevant documents, which often contains many documents in the top ranks that...
We describe the integration of a structuredtext retrieval system (TextMachine) into an object-oriented database system (OpenODB). We use the external function capability of the da...
It is now accepted that the most eective video shot retrieval is based on indexing and retrieving clips using multiple, parallel modalities such as text-matching, image-matching a...
This paper presents a sentence extraction method based on Concept Coupling Model, a language model for handling natural language sentence structures. Sentence extraction is perfor...
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...