Abstract. Words mean different things to different people, and capturing these differences is often a subtle art. These differences are often “a matter of perspective,” and...
Jason B. Alonso, Catherine Havasi, Henry Lieberman
Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval heuristics remaining “external” to the language modelin...
When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...
In this article we explore the use of methodologies for 3D reconstruction from multiple images to recognize faces. We try to devise a strategy to tackle the problem of recognizing...