Contextual text mining is concerned with extracting topical themes from a text collection with context information (e.g., time and location) and comparing/analyzing the variations...
Near-duplicate keyframes (NDK) play a unique role in large-scale video search, news topic detection and tracking. In this paper, we propose a novel NDK retrieval approach by explo...
Pseudo-relevance feedback is an effective technique for improving retrieval results. Traditional feedback algorithms use a whole feedback document as a unit to extract words for ...
Search and recommendation systems must include contextual information to effectively model users’ interests. In this paper, we present a systematic study of the effectiveness of...
Comments left by readers on Web documents contain valuable information that can be utilized in different information retrieval tasks including document search, visualization, and ...