York University participated in HARD and Genomics tracks this year. For both tracks, we used Okapi BSS (basic search system) as the basis. Our experiments mainly focused on exploi...
Xiangji Huang, Yan Rui Huang, Ming Zhong, Miao Wen
The performance of a content based image retrieval (CBIR) system is inherently constrained by the features adopted to represent the images in the database. In this paper, a new ap...
This paper presents a graph-based approach for spoken term detection. Each first-pass retrieved utterance is a node on a graph and the edge between two nodes is weighted by the s...
One of the main challenges in interactive concept-based video search is the insufficient relevant sample problem, especially for queries with complex semantics. To address this pr...
Jin Yuan, Zheng-Jun Zha, Zhengdong Zhao, Xiangdong...
Learning-to-rank algorithms, which can automatically adapt ranking functions in web search, require a large volume of training data. A traditional way of generating training examp...