This demonstration introduces WikiPics, a language-independent image search engine for Wikimedia Commons. Based on the multilingual thesaurus provided by WikiWord, WikiPics allows...
The next generation of online reference works will require structured representations of their contents in order to support scholarly functions such as semantic search, automated ...
This paper presents a novel method for online and incremental appearance-based localization and mapping in a highly dynamic environment. Using position-invariant robust features (...
Given a set of N multi-dimensional points, we study the computation of -quantiles according to a ranking function F, which is provided by the user at runtime. Specifically, F compu...
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...