This paper describes a novel music playback interface, called Musicream, which lets a user unexpectedly come across various musical pieces similar to those liked by the user. With...
One of the main challenges in interactive concept-based video search is the insufficient relevant sample problem, especially for queries with complex semantics. To address this pr...
Jin Yuan, Zheng-Jun Zha, Zhengdong Zhao, Xiangdong...
We all use our associative memory constantly. Words and concepts form paths that we can follow to find new related concepts; for example, when we think about a car we may associate...
We simulate different architectures of a distributed Information Retrieval system on a very large Web collection, in order to work out the optimal setting for a particular set of r...
As user demands become increasingly sophisticated, search engines today are competing in more than just returning document results from the Web. One area of competition is providi...