In this paper we explore the effectiveness of three clustering methods used to perform word image indexing. The three methods are: the Self-Organazing Map (SOM), the Growing Hiera...
While current search engines serve known-item search such as homepage finding very well, they generally cannot support exploratory search effectively. In exploratory search, user...
Xuanhui Wang, Bin Tan, Azadeh Shakery, ChengXiang ...
The ImageCLEF Photo Retrieval Task 2009 focused on image retrieval and diversity. A new collection was utilised in this task consisting of approximately half a million images with...
Monica Lestari Paramita, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clou...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...
Users of the World-Wide Web are not only confronted by an immense overabundance of information, but also by a plethora of tools for searching for the web pages that suit their inf...