Keyword search techniques that take advantage of XML structure make it very easy for ordinary users to query XML databases, but current approaches to processing these queries rely...
The classical (ad hoc) document retrieval problem has been traditionally approached through ranking according to heuristically developed functions (such as tf.idf or bm25) or gene...
This paper describes a content-based image retrieval system that employs both higher-level and lower-level vision methodologies separately and in conjunction for the retrieval of ...
: Modeling the characteristics of specific images and individual users is a critical issue in content-based image retrieval but insufficiently addressed by the current retrieval ap...
This paper presents a Japanese information retrieval method using the dependency relationship between words and semantic and statistical information about them. Our method gives a...