We propose a real-time retrieval method for document images in various languages. In this method, queries are images of documents captured by a web-camera. The document images cor...
This paper addresses the construction of a novel efficient rotation-invariant texture retrieval method that is based on the alignment in angle of signatures obtained via a steerabl...
George Tzagkarakis, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano, Pana...
For the TREC 2004 Novelty track, UMass participated in all four tasks. Although finding relevant sentences was harder this year than last, we continue to show marked improvements ...
Nasreen Abdul Jaleel, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft,...
Speech recognition transcripts are far from perfect; they are not of sufficient quality to be useful on their own for spoken document retrieval. This is especially the case for c...
Several types of queries are widely used on the World Wide Web and the expected retrieval method can vary depending on the query type. We propose a method for classifying queries ...