: Performance of Natural Language Interface often deteriorates due to linguistic phenomena of Semantic Symmetry and Ambiguous Modification (Katz and Lin, 2003). In this paper we pr...
We develop a novel approach to the semantic analysis of short text segments and demonstrate its utility on a large corpus of Web search queries. Extracting meaning from short text...
To help users answer the question, what is the relation between (real world) entities or concepts, we might need to go well beyond the borders of traditional information retrieval ...
Index trees created using distance based indexing are difficult to maintain online since the distance function involved is often costly to compute. This problem is intensified whe...
A novel video retrieval tool based on MPEG-4 video object (VO) representation is presented. The algorithm extends the concept of edge potential functions (EPF), already used in sha...
Minh-Son Dao, Francesco G. B. De Natale, Andrea Ma...