This paper introduces the concept of a Parameterised Search System (PSS), which allows flexibility in user queries, and, more importantly, allows system engineers to easily defin...
Many tasks require users to extract information from diverse sources, to edit or process this information locally, and to explore how the end results are affected by changes in th...
Automated photo tagging is essential to make massive unlabeled photos searchable by text search engines. Conventional image annotation approaches, though working reasonably well o...
Lei Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, Ne...
This paper gives an overview of the INEX 2007 Ad Hoc Track. The main purpose of the Ad Hoc Track was to investigate the value of the internal document structure (as provided by the...
Question answering (QA) on table data is a challenging information retrieval task. This paper describes a QA system for tables created with both machine learning and heuristic tab...