Information retrieval emerged as independent research area from traditional database management system more than a decade ago. This was driven by the increasing functional require...
In the application domain of online information services such as online census information, health records and real-time stock quotes, there are at least two fundamental challenge...
Most topic models, such as latent Dirichlet allocation, rely on the bag-of-words assumption. However, word order and phrases are often critical to capturing the meaning of text in...
Image retrieval has been widely used in many fields of science and engineering. The semantic concept of user interest is obtained by a learning process. Traditional techniques oft...
In this paper, a series of window-based methods is proposed for information retrieval. Compared with traditional tf-idf model, our approaches are based on two new key notions. The ...