Abstract. In this paper an effective context-based approach for interactive similarity queries is presented. By exploiting the notion of image “context”, it is possible to asso...
er reports on a pragmatic query language for Racer. The abstract syntax and semantics of this query language is defined. Next, the practical relevance of this query language is sh...
We explore the utility of different types of topic models for retrieval purposes. Based on prior work, we describe several ways that topic models can be integrated into the retrie...
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
Topic models such as aspect model or LDA have been shown as a promising approach for text modeling. Unlike many previous models that restrict each document to a single topic, topi...