The prediction of query performance is an interesting and important issue in Information Retrieval (IR). Current predictors involve the use of relevance scores, which are time-con...
Many researchers have noted that web search queries are often ambiguous or unclear. We present an approach for identifying the popular meanings of queries using web search logs an...
Although the availability of large video corpora are on the rise, the value of these datasets remain largely untapped due to the difficulty of analyzing their contents. Automatic ...
A central task in multimedia systems is image management (storage and retrieval). As information is disseminated across vast networks, such as the Internet, methods of locating au...
Several information organization, access, and filtering systems can benefit from different kind of document representations than those used in traditional Information Retrieval (I...