The number of digital photographs is growing beyond the abilities of individuals to easily manage and understand their own photo collections. Photo LOI (Level of Interest) is a te...
The paper reviews the TREC Programme up to TREC-6 (1997), considering the test results, the substantive findings for IR that follow, and the lessons TREC offers for IR evaluation....
We evaluate a new hybrid language processing approach designed for interactive applications that maintain an interaction with users over multiple turns. Specifically, we describe ...
Abstract. Similarity search in large multimedia databases requires efficient query processing based on suitable similarity models. Similarity models consist of a feature extraction...
We consider the problem of dialogue adaptation in our Smart Personal Assistant (SPA), which uses a plan-based dialogue model. We present a novel way of integrating learning into a...