We propose and evaluate a query expansion mechanism that supports searching and browsing in collections of annotated documents. Based on generative language models, our feedback me...
Fuzzy vault has been shown to be an effective technique for securing fingerprint minutiae templates. Its security depends on the difficulty in identifying the set of genuine minut...
Syntactic consistency is the preference to reuse a syntactic construction shortly after its appearance in a discourse. We present an analysis of the WSJ portion of the Penn Treeba...
Content-based image retrievalsystems use low-levelfeatures like color and texturefor image representation. Given these representationsasfeature vectors, similarity between images ...
Selim Aksoy, Robert M. Haralick, Faouzi Alaya Chei...
There are several auxiliary pre-computed access structures that allow faster answers by reading less base data. Examples are materialized views, join indexes, B-tree and bitmap in...