The interfaces used by the top Web search engines have changed very little since the early days of Web search. These interfaces follow the traditional model of information retriev...
Abstract. The ostensive model assumes that a user’s information need is dynamic and developing, thus, a recently accessed object can be seen as more indicative to the current inf...
The problem of joint modeling the text and image components of multimedia documents is studied. The text component is represented as a sample from a hidden topic model, learned wi...
Nikhil Rasiwasia, Jose Costa Pereira, Emanuele Cov...
Abstract. This paper presents a series of experiments investigating the effectiveness of query-independent features extracted from retrieved objects to predict relevancy. Features...
This paper presents a Flexible Question Answering System (FQAS) for mobile wireless devices. FQAS comprises a fuzzy logic-based Information Retrieval (IR) System together with a q...