In this paper, we propose a probabilistic model for web image mining, which is based on concept-sensitive salient regions without human intervene. Our goal is to achieve a middle-...
Although PageRank has been designed to estimate the popularity of Web pages, it is a general algorithm that can be applied to the analysis of other graphs other than one of hypert...
The widespread use of templates on the Web is considered harmful for two main reasons. Not only do they compromise the relevance judgment of many web IR and web mining methods suc...
Karane Vieira, Altigran Soares da Silva, Nick Pint...
This paper presents a Flexible Question Answering System (FQAS) for mobile wireless devices. FQAS comprises a fuzzy logic-based Information Retrieval (IR) System together with a q...
In this paper we describe an image-based approach to finding location-based information from camera-equipped mobile devices. We introduce a point-by-photograph paradigm, where user...