We present two simple but effective smoothing techniqes for the standard language model (LM) approach to information retrieval [12]. First, we extend the unigram Dirichlet smoothi...
Abstract. This paper describes the medical image retrieval and annotation tasks of ImageCLEF 2006. Both tasks are described with respect to goals, databases, topics, results, and t...
The Web N-gram Workshop was held on July 23, 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland, in conjunction with the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. The workshop brought together leaders in inform...
Chengxiang Zhai, Kuansan Wang, David Yarowsky, Ste...
Image searching is a creative process. We have proposed a novel image retrieval system that supports creative search sessions by allowing the user to organise their search results ...
This paper describes an approach to optimize query by visual example results, by combining visual features and implicit user feedback in interactive video retrieval. To this end, ...
Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Ioannis ...