Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
In this paper, we present a semi-supervised learning method for web page classification, leveraging click logs to augment training data by propagating class labels to unlabeled si...
Soo-Min Kim, Patrick Pantel, Lei Duan, Scott Gaffn...
Addressed in this paper is the issue of `email data cleaning' for text mining. Many text mining applications need take emails as input. Email data is usually noisy and thus i...
In standard text retrieval systems, the documents are gathered and indexed on a single server. In distributed information retrieval (DIR), the documents are held in multiple colle...
Image retrieval on the Web requires that important (authoritative) images satisfying the query selection criteria are assigned higher ranking over other relevant images. PicASHOW ...
Epimenidis Voutsakis, Euripides G. M. Petrakis, Ev...