Modeling visual concepts using supervised or unsupervised machine learning approaches are becoming increasing important for video semantic indexing, retrieval, and filtering appli...
In an increasingly multilingual world, it is critical that information management tools organically support the simultaneous use of multiple natural languages. A pre-requisite 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 ...
In the area of Text Retrieval, processing a query in the vector model has been verified to be qualitatively more effective than searching in the boolean model. However, in case o...
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...