Several information organization, access, and filtering systems can benefit from different kind of document representations than those used in traditional Information Retrieval (I...
Building on the popularity of online social networks (OSNs) such as Facebook, social content-sharing applications allow users to form communities around shared interests. Millions...
Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy, Alessandra Sala, Ben Y. ...
In content-based image retrieval (CBIR), relevant images are identified based on their similarities to query images. Most CBIR algorithms are hindered by the semantic gap between ...
Luo Si, Rong Jin, Steven C. H. Hoi, Michael R. Lyu
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
The diffuse Web is an alternative way of using the Web 2.0 infrastructure for building personal diffuse applications. Systems that let users tune the temperature of their house wit...