How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
The Polylog framework is designed to provide a language for efficiently automating complex queries of information represented in multiple formats. A Polylog program contains a set...
The LETOR website contains three information retrieval datasets used as a benchmark for testing machine learning ideas for ranking. Algorithms participating in the challenge are re...
Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
We present a new active active recognition scheme (using an uncalibrated camera) based on a new idea, appearancebased aspect graphs. The scheme is robust to background clutter, an...