In this paper we propose the use of fractals and especially the Hilbert curve, in order to design good distance-preserving mappings. Such mappings improve the performance of secon...
This paper presents the second participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) task at CLEF 2006. We present the results of the submi...
The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...
This paper proposes a system of retrieving English sentences by utilizing linguistically structural information. The user’s query consists of a sequence of keywords. The system ...
In this technical demonstration we show the current version of the MediaMill system, a search engine that facilitates access to news video archives at a semantic level. The core o...
Marcel Worring, Cees G. M. Snoek, Bouke Huurnink, ...