We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
We present a case study about the application of the inductive database approach to the analysis of Web logs. We consider rich XML Web logs ? called conceptual logs ? that are gen...
Rosa Meo, Pier Luca Lanzi, Maristella Matera, Robe...
We propose a novel hashing scheme for image retrieval,
clustering and automatic object discovery. Unlike commonly
used bag-of-words approaches, the spatial extent of
image featu...
Ondrej Chum (Czech Technical University), Michal P...
Incorporating background knowledge into data mining algorithms is an important but challenging problem. Current approaches in semi-supervised learning require explicit knowledge p...
Samah Jamal Fodeh, William F. Punch, Pang-Ning Tan
In this paper we describe techniques for the discovery and construction of user profiles. Leveraging from the emergent data web, our system addresses the problem of sparseness of ...