In many hierarchical companies, reports from several independent groups must be merged to form a single, companywide report. This paper describes a process and system for creating...
Many images--especially those used for page design on web pages--as well as videos contain visible text. If these text occurrences could be detected, segmented, and recognized auto...
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
It has been shown that using phrases properly in the document retrieval leads to higher retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we define four types of noun phrases and present an...
Wei Zhang, Shuang Liu, Clement T. Yu, Chaojing Sun...