In this paper, we present a novel approach for the multi-oriented text line extraction from handwritten Arabic documents. After image pre-processing, the local orientations are de...
The goal of document image analysis is to produce interpretations that match those of a uent and knowledgeable human when viewing the same input. Because computer vision technique...
The paper is concerned with applying learning to rank to document retrieval. Ranking SVM is a typical method of learning to rank. We point out that there are two factors one must ...
Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Yalou Hua...
We present Aardvark, a social search engine. With Aardvark, users ask a question, either by instant message, email, web input, text message, or voice. Aardvark then routes the que...
While semantic search technologies have been proven to work well in specific domains, they still have to confront two main challenges to scale up to the Web in its entirety. In th...