We present a Bayesian framework for content-based image retrieval which models the distribution of color and texture features within sets of related images. Given a userspecified ...
Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...
This paper studies the influence of lexical semantic knowledge upon two related tasks: ad-hoc information retrieval and text similarity. For this purpose, we compare the performa...
It is argued that digital libraries of the future will contain terabyte-scale collections of digital text and that full-text searching techniques will be required to operate over c...
In this paper we exploit Semantic Vectors to develop an IR system. The idea is to use semantic spaces built on terms and documents to overcome the problem of word ambiguity. Word ...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semera...