This paper describes a set of techniques for improving the performance of automated voice search services intended for mobile users accessing these services over a range of portab...
We present a method which, given a few words defining a concept in some language, retrieves, disambiguates and extends corresponding terms that define a similar concept in another...
Information networks are widely used to characterize the relationships between data items such as text documents. Many important retrieval and mining tasks rely on ranking the dat...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Figures in digital documents contain important information. Current digital libraries do not summarize and index information available within figures for document retrieval. We pr...
Xiaonan Lu, James Ze Wang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee...