This paper presents a new discriminative model for information retrieval (IR), referred to as linear discriminant model (LDM), which provides a flexible framework to incorporate a...
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...
Address geocoding, the process of finding the map location for a structured postal address, is a relatively well-studied problem. In this paper we consider the more general proble...
Tanuja Joshi, Joseph Joy, Tobias Kellner, Udayan K...
The application of nlp techniques to improve the results of information retrieval is still considered as a controversial issue, whereas nlp techniques in cross-language informatio...
Abstract. This paper presents a simple unsupervised learning algorithm for recognizing synonyms, based on statistical data acquired by querying a Web search engine. The algorithm, ...