Traditional models of information retrieval assume documents are independently relevant. But when the goal is retrieving diverse or novel information about a topic, retrieval mode...
Research on relevance feedback (RFB) in information retrieval (IR) has given mixed results. Success in RFB seems to depend on the searcher's willingness to provide feedback a...
This paper describe the last round of the medical image annotation task in ImageCLEF 2009. After four years, we defined the task as a survey of all the past experience. Seven grou...
Tatiana Tommasi, Barbara Caputo, Petra Welter, Mar...
With the advent of high-performance COTS clusters, there is a need for a simple, scalable and faulttolerant parallel programming and execution paradigm. In this paper, we show that...
Reza Farivar, Abhishek Verma, Ellick Chan, Roy H. ...
The past research on the state complexity of operations on regular languages is examined, and a new approach based on an old method (derivatives of regular expressions) is presente...