A Question Answering (QA) system aims to return exact answers to natural language questions. While today information retrieval techniques are quite successful at locating within l...
A combination of query-by-visual-example (QBVE) and semantic retrieval (SR), denoted as query-by-semantic-example (QBSE), is proposed. Images are labeled with respect to a vocabula...
Nikhil Rasiwasia, Nuno Vasconcelos, Pedro J. Moren...
Images and videos can be indexed by multiple features at different levels, such as color, texture, motion, and text annotation. Organizing this information into a system so that u...
Abstract. As a consequence of the success of the Web, methodologies for information system development need to consider systems that use the Web paradigm. These Web Information Sys...
Geert-Jan Houben, Peter Barna, Flavius Frasincar, ...
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...