Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery have gained immense importance in the wake of recent man and nature inflicted calamities such as the terrorist attacks of September 11th 20...
Khalid Saleem, Steven Luis, Yi Deng, Shu-Ching Che...
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) improves search quality by expanding the query using terms from high-ranking documents from an initial retrieval. Although PRF can often result in ...
Marc-Allen Cartright, James Allan, Victor Lavrenko...
Information systems now form the backbone of nearly every government and private system. Increasingly these systems are networked together allowing for distributed operations, sha...
Frederick T. Sheldon, Stephen Gordon Batsell, Stac...
Near-duplicate keyframes (NDK) play a unique role in large-scale video search, news topic detection and tracking. In this paper, we propose a novel NDK retrieval approach by explo...
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...