— We present three general approaches to detecting prototypical entities in a given taxonomy and apply them to a music information retrieval (MIR) problem. More precisely, we try...
Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
Automatic keyword annotation is a promising solution to enable more effective image search by using keywords. In this paper, we propose a novel automatic image annotation method b...
Human computation is an effective way to channel human effort spent playing games to solving computational problems that are easy for humans but difficult for computers to autom...
Ali Dasdan, Chris Drome, Santanu Kolay, Micah Alpe...
This paper is concerned with the generalization ability of learning to rank algorithms for information retrieval (IR). We point out that the key for addressing the learning proble...
Yanyan Lan, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhiming Ma, Hang...