This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
Most systems for content based image retrieval (CBIR) employ low level image features as a similarity measure. The problem of CBIR systems is that they are a “black box” to th...
This paper explains two projects dealing with spam recently completed at Iowa State University (ISU). The first project was undertaken by a team composed of members of the campus ...
Abstract. Use of document genre in information retrieval systems has the potential to improve the task-appropriateness of results. However, genre classification remains a challengi...
Luanne Freund, Charles L. A. Clarke, Elaine G. Tom...
This paper introduces a composite learning approach for image retrieval with relevance feedback. The proposed system combines the radial basis function (RBF) based lowlevel learni...