As more information becomes available electronically, tools for finding information of interest to users becomes increasingly important. The goal of the research described here is...
Eric Bloedorn, Inderjeet Mani, T. Richard MacMilla...
In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
Topic-based text summaries promise to help average users quickly understand a text collection and derive insights. Recent research has shown that the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (...
E-mails concerning the development issues of a system constitute an important source of information about high-level design decisions, low-level implementation concerns, and the s...
In this paper, we present a multimodal parallel text-image corpus, and propose an image annotation method that exploits the textual information associated with images. Our corpus ...