We describe the design and implementation of a system for logic-based multimedia retrieval. As highlevel logic for retrieval of hypermedia documents, we have developed a probabilis...
We introduce a new theoretical derivation, evaluation methods, and extensive empirical analysis for an automatic query expansion framework in which model estimation is cast as a r...
We devise a method for automatically detecting treatment relationships using lexico-syntactic patterns and its application to medical-oriented patent retrieval. This process for d...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...
This thesis investigates application of clustering to multi-criteria ratings as a method of improving the precision of top-N recommendations. With the advent of ecommerce sites th...