This paper describes our approaches to the opinion retrieval and blog distillation tasks for the Blog Track. For opinion retrieval we employ a two-stage framework consisting of ke...
This paper formalizes Feature Selection as a Reinforcement Learning problem, leading to a provably optimal though intractable selection policy. As a second contribution, this pape...
We present an automated Image Annotation system called I-Tag which uses both visual and textual information of the images and recommends relevant tags for them. The automatic gene...
Aggregate ranking tasks are those where documents are not the final ranking outcome, but instead an intermediary component. For instance, in expert search, a ranking of candidate ...
Temporal segmentation of video is a necessary rst step to indexing digital video for browsing and retrieval. A number of di erent video temporal segmentation algorithms have been ...