Abstract. A key challenge in information retrieval is the use of contextual evidence within ad-hoc retrieval. Our contribution is particularly based on the belief that contextual r...
As the scope of personal data grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to find what we need when we need it. Desktop search tools provide a potential answer, but most existing too...
Sam Shah, Craig A. N. Soules, Gregory R. Ganger, B...
This paper compares several indexing methods for person names extracted from text, developed for an information retrieval system with requirements for fast approximate matching of...
This paper presents a method for automatic multimodal person authentication using speech, face and visual speech modalities. The proposed method uses the motion information to loc...
This paper presents the motivation, resources and results for the first Web People Search task, which was organized as part of the SemEval-2007 evaluation exercise. Also, we will ...