We present an approach to learning the personal preferences of individual users directly from example images. The target application is computer assisted search of partners in onl...
Automatic keyword annotation is a promising solution to enable more effective image search by using keywords. In this paper, we propose a novel automatic image annotation method b...
The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
Tasks of data mining and information retrieval depend on a good distance function for measuring similarity between data instances. The most effective distance function must be for...
This paper proposes a learning approach for the merging process in multilingual information retrieval (MLIR). To conduct the learning approach, we also present a large number of f...