High retrieval precision in content-based image retrieval can be attained by adopting relevance feedback mechanisms. These mechanisms require that the user judges the quality of t...
Despite its intuitive appeal, the hypothesis that retrieval at the level of “concepts” should outperform purely term-based approaches remains unverified empirically. In addit...
Dealing with verbose (or long) queries poses a new challenge for information retrieval. Selecting a subset of the original query (a "sub-query") has been shown to be an ...
Music librarians and cataloguers have traditionally created indexes that allow users to access musical works using standard reference information, such as the name of the composer...
As we move from a Web of data to a Web of services, enhancing the capabilities of the current Web search engines with effective and efficient techniques for Web services retrieva...