In this paper, we undertake a large-scale study of online user behavior based on search and toolbar logs. We propose a new CCS taxonomy of pageviews consisting of Content (news, p...
The contemporary high-speed networks, e.g. the Internet and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks provide a convenient and cost-effective communication platform to carry the e...
The standard method for making the full content of audio and video material searchable and is to annotate it with humangenerated meta-data that describes the content in a way that...
Creating conversational interfaces for children is challenging in several respects. These include acoustic modeling for automatic speech recognition (ASR), language and dialog mode...
In Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR), accurately ranking the returned images is of paramount importance, since users consider mostly the topmost results. The typical ranking st...
Fabio F. Faria, Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de...