Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
Computing the pairwise semantic similarity between all words on the Web is a computationally challenging task. Parallelization and optimizations are necessary. We propose a highly...
Patrick Pantel, Eric Crestan, Arkady Borkovsky, An...
An efficient indexing method is essential for content-based image retrieval with the exponential growth in large-scale videos and photos. Recently, hash-based methods (e.g., local...
Because of the large variation across different environments, a generic classifier trained on extensive data-sets may perform sub-optimally in a particular test environment. In th...
Locating files based on file system structure, file properties, and maybe even file contents is a core task of the user interface of operating systems. By adapting XPath's po...