Web image search has been explored and developed in academic as well as commercial areas for over a decade. To measure the similarity between Web images and user queries, most of ...
Ying Liu, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Lei Zhang, Wei-Yin...
Term-weighting functions derived from various models of retrieval aim to model human notions of relevance more accurately. However, there is a lack of analysis of the sources of e...
Metadata descriptions of database contents are required to build and use systems that access and deliver data in response to user requests. When numerous heterogeneous databases a...
Eduard H. Hovy, Andrew Philpot, Judith Klavans, Ul...
—Recently, there has been a proliferation of service-based systems, i.e. software systems that are composed of autonomous services, but can also use software code. In order to su...
The goal of the Virtual Humans Project at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies is to enrich virtual training environments with virtual hum...
Patrick G. Kenny, Arno Hartholt, Jonathan Gratch, ...