Hierarchies provide a means of organizing, summarizing and accessing information. We describe a method for automatically generating hierarchies from small collections of text, and...
Content-based retrieval and recognition of graphic images requires good models for symbol representation, able to identify those features providing the most relevant information a...
ct 7 Social animals or insects in nature often exhibit a form of emergent collective behavior known as flocking. In this paper, 8 we present a novel Flocking based approach for doc...
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
In this paper, we address both standard and focused retrieval tasks based on comprehensible language models and interactive query expansion (IQE). Query topics are expanded using a...