In this paper, we address a ranking problem in web image retrieval. Due to the growing availability of web images, comprehensive retrieval of web images has been expected. Conventi...
This paper investigates whether Web comments are of descriptive nature, that is, whether the combined text of a set of comments is similar in topic to the commented object. If so,...
- Genetic algorithms (GAs) search for good solutions to a problem by operations inspired from the natural selection of living beings. Among their many uses, we can count informatio...
A weakly-supervised extraction method identifies concepts within conceptual hierarchies, at the appropriate level of specificity (e.g., Bank vs. Institution), to which attribute...
Where Information Retrieval (IR) and Text Categorization delivers a set of (ranked) documents according to a query, users of large document collections would rather like to receiv...