Tattoo images on human body have been routinely collected and used in law enforcement to assist in suspect and victim identification. However, the current practice of matching tat...
Anil K. Jain, Jung-Eun Lee, Rong Jin, Nicholas Gre...
Much information over the Internet is expressed by natural languages. The management of linguistic information involves an operation of comparison and aggregation. In this paper, ...
It is crucial to study basic principles that support adaptive and scalable retrieval functions in large networked environments such as the Web, where information is distributed am...
Abstract. Query reformulation techniques based on semantic knowledge have been used in two ways in database management systems, namely for query optimization and for data integrati...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...