Intuitively, any `bag of words' approach in IR should benefit from taking term dependencies into account. Unfortunately, for years the results of exploiting such dependencies ...
Eduard Hoenkamp, Peter Bruza, Dawei Song, Qiang Hu...
The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...
The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...
In many modern applications such as biometric identification systems, sensor networks, medical imaging, geology, and multimedia databases, the data objects are not described exact...
To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimediaobjects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) in o...
Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Sha...