A staggering number of multimedia applications are being introduced every day. Yet, the inordinate delays encountered in retrieving multimedia documents make it difficult to use t...
In this paper, we propose a novel image classification approach, derived from the kNN classification strategy, that is particularly suited to be used when classifying images descr...
We describe our participation in the 2009 CLEF-IP task, which was targeted at priorart search for topic patent documents. Our system retrieved patent documents based on a standard...
We present a system that tries to automatically collect and monitor Japanese blog collections that include not only ones made with blog softwares but also ones written as normal w...
Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) facilitates the use of one language to access documents in other languages. Crosslanguage information extraction (CLIE) extracts releva...