This paper explores the use of texts that are related to an image collection, also known as collateral texts, for building thesauri in specialist domains to aid in image retrieval....
Abstract. Query expansion has received extensive attention in information retrieval community. Although semantic based query expansion appears to be promising in improving retrieva...
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
The participation of the University of Hildesheim focused on the monolingual German and English and the bilingual German English tasks of GeoCLEF 2006. Based on the results of Geo...
Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hac...
Training a 3D model classifier on a small dataset is very challenging. However, large datasets of partially classified models are now commonly available online. We use an external...