While classic information retrieval methods return whole documents as a result of a query, many information demands would be better satisfied by fine-grain access inside the docu...
Background: Digital atlases provide a common semantic and spatial coordinate system that can be leveraged to compare, contrast, and correlate data from disparate sources. As the q...
This paper presents novel text input methods for mobile devices. In particular, it shows how users can capture text from books, newspapers, and other objects by using the digital ...
Genetic algorithms (GAs) share a common weakness with most other metaheuristics: Candidate solutions are in general revisited multiple times, lowering diversity and wasting preciou...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...