In this paper, we propose a method for multi-term query expansions based on WordNet. In our approach, Hypernym/Hyponymy and Synonym relations in WordNet is used as the basic expans...
We present methods for improving text search retrieval of visual multimedia content by applying a set of visual models of semantic concepts from a lexicon of concepts deemed relev...
Alexander Haubold, Apostol Natsev, Milind R. Napha...
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...
Language Modeling (LM) has been successfully applied to Information Retrieval (IR). However, most of the existing LM approaches only rely on term occurrences in documents, queries...
Jing Bai, Dawei Song, Peter Bruza, Jian-Yun Nie, G...