Recognition and retrieval of historical handwritten material is an unsolved problem. We propose a novel approach to recognizing and retrieving handwritten manuscripts, based upon ...
The novelty track was first introduced in TREC 2002. Given a TREC topic and an ordered list of documents, systems must find the relevant and novel sentences that should be retur...
It is crucial for a web crawler to distinguish between ephemeral and persistent content. Ephemeral content (e.g., quote of the day) is usually not worth crawling, because by the t...
This paper presents a general framework for building classifiers that deal with short and sparse text & Web segments by making the most of hidden topics discovered from larges...
The Social Web is successfully established and poised for continued growth. Web 2.0 applications such as blogs, bookmarking, music, photo and video sharing systems are among the m...
Avare Stewart, Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl...