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AVI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Scenique: a multimodal image retrieval interface
Searching for images by using low-level visual features, such as color and texture, is known to be a powerful, yet imprecise, retrieval paradigm. The same is true if search relies...
Ilaria Bartolini, Paolo Ciaccia
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Programmatic semantics for natural language interfaces
An important way of making interfaces usable by nonexpert users is to enable the use of natural language input, as in natural language query interfaces to databases, or MUDs and M...
Hugo Liu, Henry Lieberman
ICDE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
Efficient Distribution of Full-Fledged XQuery
Abstract-- We investigate techniques to automatically decompose any XQuery query into subqueries, that can be executed near their data sources; i.e., function-shipping. In this sce...
Ying Zhang, Nan Tang, Peter A. Boncz
ICCV
2007
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Interactive Search for Image Categories by Mental Matching
Traditional image retrieval methods require a "query image" to initiate a search for members of an image category. However, when the image database is unstructured, and ...
Marin Ferecatu, Donald Geman
NETWORK
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Composing semantic services in open sensor-rich environments
Consider a scenario where Jane is at an airport. She wants to find a restaurant with healthy food and short waiting time on the way to her terminal. The airport can provide such s...
Jie Liu, Feng Zhao