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MM
2009
ACM
203views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
14 years 11 days ago
Distance metric learning from uncertain side information with application to automated photo tagging
Automated photo tagging is essential to make massive unlabeled photos searchable by text search engines. Conventional image annotation approaches, though working reasonably well o...
Lei Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, Ne...
DGO
2004
110views Education» more  DGO 2004»
13 years 9 months ago
Question Answering Performance on Table Data
Question answering (QA) on table data is a challenging information retrieval task. This paper describes a QA system for tables created with both machine learning and heuristic tab...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, David Pinto
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Learning how: the search for craft knowledge on the internet
Communicating the subtleties of a craft technique, like putting a zipper into a garment or throwing a clay pot, can be challenging even when working side by side. Yet HowTo conten...
Cristen Torrey, Elizabeth F. Churchill, David W. M...
CIVR
2004
Springer
154views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Content-Based Image Retrieval and Characterization on Specific Web Collections
One of the challenges in image and video retrieval is the content-based retrieval of images and videos in the web. Less work has been done in this area, mainly due to scalability i...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rod...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Social tagging revamped: supporting the users' need of self-promotion through persuasive techniques
People share pictures online to increase their social presence. However, recent studies have shown that most of the content shared in social networks is not looked at by peers. Pr...
Mauro Cherubini, Alejandro Gutierrez, Rodrigo de O...