Abstract. We present the results of UMBC’s participation in the Web and Novelty tracks. We explored various heuristics-based link analysis approaches to the Topic Distillation ta...
Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Ch...
In this work, we are interested in technologies that will allow users to actively browse and navigate large image databases and to retrieve images through interactive fast browsin...
Learning ranking (or preference) functions has been a major issue in the machine learning community and has produced many applications in information retrieval. SVMs (Support Vect...
The large amount of information now available on the Web can play a prominent role in building a cooperative intelligent distance learning environment. We propose a system to prov...
Mohammed Abdel Razek, Claude Frasson, Marc Kaltenb...
The cultural heritage domain dealing with digital surrogates of rare and fragile historic artifacts is one of the most promising areas for establishing collaboratories, i.e. shared...