Large number of medical images are produced daily in hospitals and medical institutions, the needs to efficiently process, index, search and retrieve these images are great. In t...
Information retrieval (IR) researchers commonly use three tests of statistical significance: the Student's paired t-test, the Wilcoxon signed rank test, and the sign test. Ot...
We describe a method to align ASL video subtitles with a closed-caption transcript. Our alignments are partial, based on spotting words within the video sequence, which consists o...
This paper presents the results of the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the Mono-lingual and Multi-lingual tasks at CLEF 2004. For these tasks we used an approach ba...
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...