Large collections of scanned documents (books and journals) are now available in Digital Libraries. The most common method for retrieving relevant information from these collectio...
We present a model, based on the maximum entropy method, for analyzing various measures of retrieval performance such as average precision, R-precision, and precision-at-cutoffs....
Intelligent directory assistance is the ability to retrieve relevant subscriber records in the presence of mismatches between the query and the subscriber record. The challenges a...
Describing shots through the occurrence of semantic concepts is the first step towards modeling the content of a video semantically. An important challenge is to automatically se...
We consider the problem of finding officially unrecognized side effects of drugs. By submitting queries to the Web involving a given drug name, it is possible to retrieve pages co...
Carlo Curino, Yuanyuan Jia, Bruce Lambert, Patrici...