In this paper, we propose a probabilistic model for web image mining, which is based on concept-sensitive salient regions without human intervene. Our goal is to achieve a middle-...
Exploiting the structure of a document allows for more powerful information retrieval techniques. In this article a basic approach is discussed for the retrieval of XML document f...
Users commonly rely just on scarce textual annotation when their searches for images are semantic or conceptual based. Rich visual information is often thrown away in basic annota...
Microblogs have become an important source of information for the purpose of marketing, intelligence, and reputation management. Streams of microblogs are of great value because o...
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...