Traditional content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems often fail to meet a user's need due to the `semantic gap' between the extracted features of the systems and the...
This paper describes the participation of MIRACLE research consortium at the Query Parsing task of GeoCLEF 2007. Our system is composed of three main modules. First, the Named Geo...
A search engine evaluation model that considers over seventy performance and feature parameters is presented. The design of a web-based system that allows the user to tailor the m...
The prevalence of free text search in web search engines has inspired recent interest in keyword search on relational databases. Whereas relational queries formally specify matchi...
In social bookmarking systems, existing methods in tag prediction have shown that the performance of prediction can be significantly improved by modeling users’ preferences. Ho...