To investigate the nature of people’s understandings for how search engines work, we collected data from 232 undergraduate and graduate students. Students were asked to “draw ...
In this poster we describe alternative inverted index structures that reduce the time required to process queries, produce a higher query throughput and still return high quality ...
Paul Ferguson, Alan F. Smeaton, Cathal Gurrin, Pet...
This paper employs ConceptNet, which covers a rich set of commonsense concepts, to retrieve images with text descriptions by focusing on spatial relationships. Evaluation on test ...
Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF, [5]) and Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA, [4]) have been successfully applied to a number of text analysis tasks such as docum...
The direct application of standard ranking techniques to retrieve individual elements from a collection of XML documents often produces a result set in which the top ranks are dom...