This paper represents the first participation of the Institute of Statistical Studies and Research at Cairo University group in CLEF 2009-Medical image retrieval track. Our system...
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...
This paper describes a simple clustering approach to person name disambiguation of retrieved documents. The methods are based on standard IR concepts and do not require any task-s...
We describe a system for the retrieval on the basis of layout similarity of document images belonging to collections stored in digital libraries. Layout regions are extracted and ...
Taking advantage of the well-known cluster hypothesis that “closely associated documents tend to be relevant to the same request”, we can use inter-document similarity to prov...