In this paper we present WINDSURF (Wavelet-Based Indexing of Images Using Region Fragmentation), a new approach to content-based image retrieval. The method uses the wavelet trans...
Stefania Ardizzoni, Ilaria Bartolini, Marco Patell...
Hierarchical structures and catalogs is a way to organize and enrich semantically the available information in the Web. From simple tree-like structures with syntactic constraints ...
Panagiotis Bouros, Theodore Dalamagas, Timos K. Se...
This report describes a new open-domain answer retrieval system developed at the University of Edinburgh and gives results for the TREC-12 question answering track. Phrasal answer...
Jochen L. Leidner, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jam...
This paper describes the implementation of a reliable Get-Put interface written for a distributed memory environment. The asynchronous semantics of the Put as well as the split tr...
Using Dirac Notation as a powerful tool, we investigate the three classical Information Retrieval (IR) models and some their extensions. We show that almost all such models can be...