Past research has identified many different types of relevance in information retrieval (IR). So far, however, most evaluation of IR systems has been through batch experiments cond...
Combination of structure and content features is necessary for effective retrieval and classification of XML documents. Composite kernels provide a way for fusion of content and s...
Active learning methods have been considered with an increased interest in the content-based image retrieval (CBIR) community. Those methods used to be based on classical classifi...
Video-on-demand (VOD) is a very promising multimedia application of the near future. In order for such a service to be commercially viable, efficient storage and retrieval schemes...
We present a novel passage-based approach to re-ranking documents in an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. While most work on passage-based document...