Abstract. Collecting relevance judgments (qrels) is an especially challenging part of building an information retrieval test collection. This paper presents a novel method for crea...
List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...
The concept of thumbnails is common in image representation. A thumbnail is a highly compressed version of an image that provides a small, yet complete visual representation to th...
Arijit Sengupta, Mehmet M. Dalkilic, James C. Cost...
Motivated by the fact that XML is increasingly being used in distributed applications, we propose building a cooperative caching scheme for XML documents. Our scheme allows sharin...
With the exponential growth of Web 2.0 applications, tags have been used extensively to describe the image contents on the Web. Due to the noisy and sparse nature in the human gene...