Several federated database systems have been built in the past using the relational or the object model as federating model. This paper gives an overview of the XMLMedia system, a ...
This paper describes our diversity featured retrieval system which are built for the task of ImageCLEFPhoto 2008. Two existing tools are used: Solr and Carrot2 . We have experimen...
Jiayu Tang, Thomas Arni, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clou...
Given a set S of n point sites in the plane, the City Voronoi diagram partitions the plane into the Voronoi regions of the sites, with respect to the City metric. This metric is i...
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...
We introduce an image retrieval method for searchingan image database by using a query image that has similarity in its global and/or regional image contents to the intended targe...