In this paper, we propose a unified framework, called Markov Model Mediator (MMM), to facilitate image database clustering and to improve the query performance. The structure of t...
Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui ...
This paper presents a new dependence language modeling approach to information retrieval. The approach extends the basic language modeling approach based on unigram by relaxing th...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Guangyuan Wu, Guihong ...
This paper proposes a ranking method to exploit statistical correlations among pairs of attribute values in relational databases. For a given query, the correlations of the query ...
Document expansion and query expansion aim to add related terms into document and query representations in order to make them more complete. However, most previous studies are lim...
In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...