The need of having a Passage Retrieval (PR) system for Arabic texts is due essentially to our aim to build an Arabic Question Answering (QA) system in our research team. We have ch...
Ranking algorithms, whose goal is to appropriately order a set of objects/documents, are an important component of information retrieval systems. Previous work on ranking algorith...
How do people make sense of a video based on viewing a few frames of that video? What elements constitute the "visual gist" in their minds? Answers to these questions wi...
Earth-observing satellites, such Landsat, provide many multitemporal images of earth and with classification techniques, land-cover class images can easily be prepared. Multitempo...
Abstract. Dissimilarity measurement plays a crucial role in contentbased image retrieval, where data objects and queries are represented as vectors in high-dimensional content feat...