This paper presents a system that retrieves descriptive phrases of proper nouns from free text. Sentences holding the specified noun are ranked using a technique based on pattern ...
Situational aspects are very helpful to decide relevance but they have often been left aside by Information Retrieval models. The standard logical approach to Information Retrieva...
Clusters of workstations are becoming popular platforms for parallel computing, but performance on these systems is more complex and harder to predict than on traditional parallel...
Geetanjali Sampemane, Scott Pakin, Andrew A. Chien
Abstract. Often in content-based image retrieval, a single image attribute may not have enough discriminative information for retrieval. On the other hand, when multiple features a...
Abstract. Representing and reasoning about orientation information is an important aspect of qualitative spatial reasoning. We present a novel approach for dealing with intrinsic o...