—Previous multikeyword search in DHT-based P2P systems often relies on multiple single keyword search operations, suffering from unacceptable traffic cost and poor accuracy. Prec...
Hanhua Chen, Jun Yan, Hai Jin, Yunhao Liu, Lionel ...
The military environment is changing, e.g., the operating environment is becoming more varied and demanding. Due to these challenges, new user interfaces (UIs) are required providi...
—Retrieval from Hindi document image collections is a challenging task. This is partly due to the complexity of the script, which has more than 800 unique ligatures. In addition,...
Raman Jain, Volkmar Frinken, C. V. Jawahar, Raghav...
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-...
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...