Most geographic information retrieval systems depend on the detection and disambiguation of place names in documents, assuming that the documents with a specific geographic scope ...
Domain specific terminologies represent important concepts when students study a subject. If the sentences which describe important concepts related to a terminology can be accesse...
We describe a method to retrieve images found on web pages with specified object class labels, using an analysis of text around the image and of image appearance. Our method dete...
In this paper, we address both standard and focused retrieval tasks based on comprehensible language models and interactive query expansion (IQE). Query topics are expanded using a...
User generated content is characterized by short, noisy documents, with many spelling errors and unexpected language usage. To bridge the vocabulary gap between the user's in...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke