In recent years, many algorithms for the Web have been developed that work with information units distinct from individual web pages. These include segments of web pages or aggreg...
Through the recent NTCIR workshops, patent retrieval casts many challenging issues to information retrieval community. Unlike newspaper articles, patent documents are very long an...
In-Su Kang, Seung-Hoon Na, Jungi Kim, Jong-Hyeok L...
While participating in the HARD track our first question was, what an IR-application should look like that takes into account preference meta-data from the user, without the need ...
Searching for small objects (e.g., logos) in images is a critical yet challenging problem. It becomes more difficult when target objects differ significantly from the query object...
This study explores the benefits of integrating knowledge representations in prior art patent retrieval. Key to the introduced approach is the utilization of human judgment availa...
Erik Graf, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas, Keith va...