In Japanese, it is quite common for the same word to be written in several different ways. This is especially true for katakana words which are typically used for transliterating ...
In visual information retrieval the careful choice of suitable proximity measures is a crucial success factor. The evaluation presented in this paper aims at showing that the dist...
Information integration applications, such as mediators or mashups, that require access to information resources currently rely on users manually discovering and integrating them ...
Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
We are developing a cross-media information retrieval system, in which users can view specific segments of lecture videos by submitting text queries. To produce a text index, the ...