This paper investigates several issues in the problem of detecting handwritten markings, or annotations, on printed documents. One issue is to define the appropriate units over wh...
We propose a new method for handwritten word-spotting which does not require prior training or gathering examples for querying. More precisely, a model is trained "on the fly...
A given entity, representing a person, a location or an organization, may be mentioned in text in multiple, ambiguous ways. Understanding natural language requires identifying whe...
The transition of search engine usersā intents has been studied for a long time. The knowledge of intent transition, once discovered, can yield a better understanding of how diļ...
One current direction to enhance the search accuracy in visual object retrieval is to reformulate the original query through (pseudo-)relevance feedback, which augments a query wi...