The World Wide Web is growing at such a pace that even the biggest centralized search engines are able to index only a small part of the available documents on the Internet. The d...
Online forums host a rich information exchange, often with contributions from many subject matter experts. In this work we evaluate algorithms for thread retrieval in a large and ...
The aim of this work is to index images in domain specific databases using colors computed from the object of interest only, instead of the whole image. The main problem in this t...
In recent years, there has been considerable research on information extraction and constructing RDF knowledge bases. In general, the goal is to extract all relevant information f...
Leveraging information from relevance assessments has been proposed as an effective means for improving retrieval. We introduce a novel language modeling method which uses inform...