A taxonomy-based source consists of a taxonomy and a database storing objects that are indexed in terms of the taxonomy. For this kind of sources, we describe a flexible interacti...
Acquiring relevant information to keep user’s preferences up-to-date is crucial in recommender systems in order to close the cycle of recommendations. Ambient Intelligence is a s...
Content-based Image retrieval has become an important part of information retrieval technology. Images can be viewed as high dimensional data and are usually represented by their ...
Ying Liu, Xin Chen, Chengcui Zhang, Alan P. Spragu...
As opposed to traditional Information Retrieval (IR) which views whole documents as atomic units of retrieval, XML IR processes XML elements as possible units of retrieval. Many o...
Video information retrieval requires a system to find information relevant to a query which may be represented simultaneously in different ways through a text description, audio...