This paper presents recent work on a multimedia retrieval project at Cambridge University and Olivetti Research Limited ORL. We present novel techniques that allow extremely rapid...
M. G. Brown, J. T. Foote, Gareth J. F. Jones, Kare...
Abstract. Software evolution has largely been focused on low-level implementation artefacts through refactoring techniques rather than the architectural level. However code-centric...
The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...
We present Pattern-by-Example (PBE), a graphical language that allows users with little or no knowledge of pattern-matching and functional programming to define complex and optim...
We discuss the idea of modelling the statistical distributions of scores of documents, classified as relevant or non-relevant. Various specific combinations of standard statistic...