Abstract We address the problem of indexing broadcast audiovisual documents (such as films, news). Starting from a collection of so-called shots, we aim at building automatically h...
The acquisition of information is generally thought to be deliberately sought using a search or query mechanism or by browsing or scanning an information space. People, however, f...
In this paper we describe Tokyo Institute of Technology’s attempt at the TREC2007 question answering (QA) track. Keeping the same theoretical QA model as for the TREC2006 task, ...
Edward W. D. Whittaker, Matthias H. Heie, Josef R....
The study of cartoons, manga, and graphic novels is of growing importance to humanity scholars. Managing cartoons for scholarly use presents two challenges: searching and understan...
Identifying the most influential documents in a corpus is an important problem in many fields, from information science and historiography to text summarization and news aggregati...