In order to become an effective complement to traditional Web-scale text-based image retrieval solutions, content-based image retrieval must address scalability and efficiency iss...
An expert finding is a very common task among enterprise search activities, while its usual retrieval performance is far from the quality of the Web search. Query modeling helps t...
Users’ cross-lingual queries to a digital library system might be short and not included in a common translation dictionary (unknown terms). In this paper, we investigate the fe...
The rapid popularization of digital cameras and mobile phone cameras has lead to an explosive growth of consumer photo collections. In this paper, we present a (quasi) real-time t...
This paper is about a novel rule-based approach for reasoning about qualitative spatiotemporal relations among technology-rich autonomous objects, to which we refer to as artifact...