Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
As traditional media and information devices integrate with the web, they must suddenly support a vastly larger database of relevant items. Many devices use remote controls with o...
With over 800 million pages covering most areas of human endeavor, the World-wide Web is a fertile ground for data mining research to make a di erence to the e ectiveness of infor...
High retrieval precision in content-based image retrieval can be attained by adopting relevance feedback mechanisms. These mechanisms require that the user judges the quality of t...
Robust data retrieval in the presence of uncertainty is a challenging problem in multimedia information retrieval. In query-by-humming (QBH) systems, uncertainty can arise in query...
Erdem Unal, Elaine Chew, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, S...