In this paper we unify two supposedly distinct tasks in multimedia retrieval. One task involves answering queries with a few examples. The other involves learning models for seman...
Users’ search needs are often represented by words and images are retrieved according to such textual queries. Annotation words assigned to the stored images are most useful to ...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
Domain specific information retrieval has become in demand. Not only domain experts, but also average non-expert users are interested in searching domain specific (e.g., medical a...
Entity information management (EIM) is a nascent IR research area that investigates the information management process about entities instead of documents. It is motivated by the ...