action from low level features to high level semantics. Owing to the proliferation of multimedia content in the internet, there is widespread interest in the semantic web community...
The emergence of general audience digital libraries (GADLs) defines a context that represents a hybrid of both ``traditional'' IR, using primarily bibliographic resource...
The University of Pittsburgh's Computing Services and Systems Development organization is focused on the needs of the faculty and student population, totaling nearly 40,000 u...
whose titles and abstracts sound very interesting, the pile of unread reports continues to grow on the table in my office." (How quaint the terminology: mail and electronic me...
We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...