In a federated digital library system, it is too expensive to query every accessible library. Resource selection is the task to decide to which libraries a query should be routed....
We present a new method for relevance feedback in image retrieval and a scheme to learn weighted distances which can be used in combination with different relevance feedback metho...
Enrique Vidal, Hermann Ney, Roberto Paredes, Thoma...
Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have successfully shown efficiencies in many areas such as text categorization. Although recommendation systems share many similarities with text ca...
In Chinese, phrases and named entities play a central role in information retrieval. Abbreviations, however, make keyword-based approaches less effective. This paper presents an em...
In this paper, we reveal a common deficiency of the current retrieval models: the component of term frequency (TF) normalization by document length is not lower-bounded properly;...