Image auto-annotation is a challenging task in computer vision. The goal of this task is to predict multiple words for generic images automatically. Recent state-of-theart methods...
We study the retrieval task that ranks a set of objects for a given query in the pairwise preference learning framework. Recently researchers found out that raw features (e.g. word...
Xi Chen, Bing Bai, Yanjun Qi, Qihang Lin, Jaime G....
In this paper we introduce the semantic approach of the answer extraction component of a question answering system called SBUQA. The answer extraction component gets the retrieved...
—In many systems providing storage and retrieval operations on data, indices are used to make these operations more efficient. Distributed storage systems provide means to distr...
The wide spread of location-based services results in a strong market for location-detection devices (e.g., GPS-like devices, RFIDs, handheld devices, and cellular phones). Example...