Activity videos are widespread on the Internet but current video search is limited to text tags due to limitations in recognition systems. One of the main reasons for this limitati...
Antony Lam, Amit K. Roy Chowdhury, Christian R. Sh...
In an environment of distributed text collections, the first step in the information retrieval process is to identify which of all available collections are more relevant to a giv...
Queries submitted to a retrieval system are often ambiguous. In such a situation, a sensible strategy is to diversify the ranking of results to be retrieved, in the hope that users...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, I...
Web search engines are often presented with user queries that involve comparisons of real-world entities. Thus far, this interaction has typically been captured by users submittin...
Retrieval queries that combine structural constraints with keyword search represent a significant challenge to XML data management systems. Queries are expected to be answered as...
Mariano P. Consens, Xin Gu, Yaron Kanza, Flavio Ri...