There has been a large amount of research on efficient document retrieval in both IR and web search areas. One important technique to improve retrieval efficiency is early termina...
Due to the structural heterogeneity of XML, queries are often interpreted approximately. This is achieved by relaxing the query and ranking the results based on their relevance to ...
The National Library of Medicine has been developing CervigramFinder, a Web-accessible prototype content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system for cervical cancer research, to retri...
George R. Thoma, Jose Jeronimo, L. Rodney Long, Sa...
In this paper we address the issue of image database retrieval based on color using various vector distance metrics. Our system is based on color segmentation where only a few rep...
Dimitrios Androutsos, Kostas N. Plataniotis, Anast...
The objective of this work is to derive quantitative statements about what fraction of web search queries issued to the state-of-the-art commercial search engines lead to excellen...
Hugo Zaragoza, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Ricardo A...