Web search engines exploit conjunctive queries and special ranking criteria which differ from the disjunctive queries typically used for ad-hoc retrieval. We wanted to asses the e...
This paper describes a novel approach of improving multi-document summarization based on cross-document information extraction (IE). We describe a method to automatically incorpora...
Semantic similarity measures have been used successfully and extensively in the biomedical research with various applications. As the biomedical ontologies, which form the main gro...
Searching for images of people is an essential task for image and video search engines. However, current search engines have limited capabilities for this task since they rely on ...
The area under an ROC curve (AUC) is a criterion used in many applications to measure the quality of a classification algorithm. However, the objective function optimized in most...