Traditional image retrieval methods require a "query image" to initiate a search for members of an image category. However, when the image database is unstructured, and ...
Most systems for content based image retrieval (CBIR) employ low level image features as a similarity measure. The problem of CBIR systems is that they are a “black box” to th...
Free on-line machine translation systems are employed more and more by Internet users. In this paper we have explored the use of these systems for Cross-Language Question Answering...
Abstract. This text motivates and de nes a generic model for interactive online or o ine product catalogs. Based on a detailed requirements analysis, the data model is de ned usi...
We introduce a natural generalization of submodular set cover and exact active learning with a finite hypothesis class (query learning). We call this new problem interactive submo...