To support the retrieval and fusion of multimedia information from multiple sources and databases, a spatial/temporal query language called ΣQL is proposed. ΣQL is based upon th...
Ontology-driven search applications use ontological concepts either to index documents or to guide and understand the users. Since ontologies by nature are domain-dependent and app...
In contrast with the current Web search methods that essentially do document-level ranking and retrieval, we are exploring a new paradigm to enable Web search at the object level....
Zaiqing Nie, Yuanzhi Zhang, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying ...
This paper introduces a novel link-based ranking algorithm based on a model of focused Web surfers. FocusedRank is described and compared to implementations of PageRank and Topic-...
Philip O'Brien, Tony Abou-Assaleh, Tapajyoti Das, ...
This paper studies the problem of sentencelevel semantic coherence by answering SATstyle sentence completion questions. These questions test the ability of algorithms to distingui...
Geoffrey Zweig, John C. Platt, Christopher Meek, C...