To ensure access to growing video collections, annotation is becoming more and more important. Using background knowledge in the form of ontologies or thesauri is a way to facilit...
This paper presents a probabilistic information retrieval framework in which the retrieval problem is formally treated as a statistical decision problem. In this framework, querie...
People accessing documents via the Internet typically experience latencies in retrieving content. We discuss continual-computation policies that dictate strategies for prefetching...
As information technology supports more aspects of modern life, digital access has become an important tool for developing regions to lift themselves from poverty. Though broadban...
Motivated by the importance of retrieving comprehensive healthcare information, we analyzed how information about 12 concepts related to a widely available healthcare topic is dis...
Suresh K. Bhavnani, Renju T. Jacob, Jennifer Nardi...