Abstract. Active learning algorithms attempt to accelerate the learning process by requesting labels for the most informative items first. In real-world problems, however, there ma...
We introduce a new descriptor for images which allows the construction of efficient and compact classifiers with good accuracy on object category recognition. The descriptor is the...
Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...
Performance prediction has gained increasing attention in the IR field since the half of the past decade and has become an established research topic in the field. The present work...
We present an approach to the discovery of semantically similar terms that utilizes a web search engine as both a source for generating related terms and a tool for estimating the...