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VLDB
1998
ACM
173views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
13 years 9 months ago
Fast Image Retrieval Using Color-Spatial Information
Abstract. In this paper, we present an image retrieval system that employs both the color and spatial information of images to facilitate the retrieval process. The basic unit used...
Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan, Tat-Seng Chua, Wynne ...
GIS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
An agenda for the next generation gazetteer: geographic information contribution and retrieval
Gazetteers are key components of georeferenced information systems, including applications such as Web-based mapping services. Existing gazetteers lack the capabilities to fully i...
Carsten Keßler, Krzysztof Janowicz, Mohamed ...
ECIR
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
User-Chosen Phrases in Interactive Query Formulation for Information Retrieval
The impact of using phrases as content representation for documents and for queries has generally been accepted as a desirable feature in information retrieval systems because phr...
Alan F. Smeaton, Fergus Kelledy
JASIS
2000
120views more  JASIS 2000»
13 years 10 months ago
Probabilistic datalog: Implementing logical information retrieval for advanced applications
In the logical approach to information retrieval (IR), retrieval is considered as uncertain inference. Whereas classical IR models are based on propositional logic, we combine Dat...
Norbert Fuhr
GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Swarming to rank for information retrieval
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...