Concept indexing in multimedia libraries is very useful for users searching and browsing but it is a very challenging research problem as well. Beyond the systems' implementat...
Business users in an enterprise need to keep track of relevant information available on the Web for strategic decisions like mergers and acquisitions. Traditionally this is done by...
Abstract. Social bookmarking systems allow users to store links to internet resources on a web page. As social bookmarking systems are growing in popularity, search algorithms have...
It is important to integrate contextual information in order to improve the inaccurate results of current approaches for automatic image annotation. Graph based representations all...
Vassilios Stathopoulos, Jana Urban, Joemon M. Jose
An expert search system assists users with their "expertise need" by suggesting people with relevant expertise to their query. Most systems work by ranking documents in r...
Abstract. In this paper we address the problem of searching for knowledgeable persons within the enterprise, known as the expert finding (or expert search) task. We present a proba...
Word space models, in the sense of vector space models built on distributional data taken from texts, are used to model semantic relations between words. We argue that the high dim...
Abstract. We show that several previously proposed passage-based document ranking principles, along with some new ones, can be derived from the same probabilistic model. We use lan...