Abstract This paper presents a method for combining query-relevance with information-novelty in the context of text retrieval and summarization. The Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR...
Typical content-based image retrieval (CBIR) solutions with regular Euclidean metric usually cannot achieve satisfactory performance due to the semantic gap challenge. Hence, rele...
Abstract. Many realistic user tasks involve the retrieval of specific entities instead of just any type of documents. Examples of information needs include ‘Countries where one ...
Arjen P. de Vries, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A....
In this paper, we describe MySearchView ? a system for assembling search engines into metasearch engines. With this system, any user can create a metasearch engine by simply letti...
In this paper we present an approach to analyzing the social behaviors that occur in a typical office space. We describe a system consisting of over 200 motion sensors connected ...
Christopher Richard Wren, Yuri A. Ivanov, Ishwinde...