Image auto-annotation, i.e., the association of words to whole images, has attracted considerable attention. In particular, unsupervised, probabilistic latent variable models of t...
Online image repositories such as Flickr contain hundreds of millions of images and are growing quickly. Along with that the needs for supporting indexing, searching and browsing ...
In information retrieval, sub-space techniques are usually used to reveal the latent semantic structure of a data-set by projecting it to a low dimensional space. Non-negative mat...
While classic information retrieval methods return whole documents as a result of a query, many information demands would be better satisfied by fine-grain access inside the docu...
We present a novel use of ordinal evaluation (OrdEval) algorithm as a promising technique to study various marketing phenomena. OrdEval algorithm has originated in data mining and ...