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AINA
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Mining Visual Knowledge for Multi-Lingual Image Retrieval
Users commonly rely just on scarce textual annotation when their searches for images are semantic or conceptual based. Rich visual information is often thrown away in basic annota...
Masashi Inoue
VLDB
1990
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
A Probabilistic Framework for Vague Queries and Imprecise Information in Databases
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...
Norbert Fuhr
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Product retrieval for grocery stores
We introduce a grocery retrieval system that maps shopping lists written in natural language into actual products in a grocery store. We have developed the system using nine month...
Petteri Nurmi, Eemil Lagerspetz, Wray L. Buntine, ...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
Improved answer ranking in social question-answering portals
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Felix Hieber, Stefan Riezler
ACSC
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Needles and Haystacks: A Search Engine for Personal Information Collections
Information retrieval systems can be partitioned into two main classes: large-scale systems that make use of an inverted index or some other auxiliary data structure, intended for...
Owen de Kretser, Alistair Moffat