Personalized search has gained great popularity to improve search effectiveness in recent years. The objective of personalized search is to provide users with information tailored ...
A lot of the world’s knowledge is stored in books, which, as a result of recent mass-digitisation efforts, are increasingly available online. Search engines, such as Google Book...
It is a challenging and important task to retrieve images from a large and highly varied image data set based on their visual contents. Problems like how to fill the semantic gap b...
Wikipedia is the largest monolithic repository of human knowledge. In addition to its sheer size, it represents a new encyclopedic paradigm by interconnecting articles through hyp...
We introduce a model class for statistical learning which is based on mixtures of propositional rules. In our mixture model, the weight of a rule is not uniform over the entire ins...