Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
A statistical database (StatDB) retrieves only aggregate results, as opposed to individual tuples. This paper investigates the construction of a privacy preserving StatDB that can...
This paper addresses the issue of effective and efficient content based image retrieval by presenting a novel indexing and retrieval methodology that integrates color, texture, an...
Metonymic location names refer to other, related entities and possess a meaning different from the literal, geographic sense. Metonymic names are to be treated differently to im...
Thesaurus has been widely used in many applications, including information retrieval, natural language processing, and question answering. In this paper, we propose a novel approa...
Zheng Chen, Shengping Liu, Liu Wenyin, Geguang Pu,...