The information resources on the Web are vast, but much of the Web is based on a browsing paradigm that requires someone to actively seek information. Instead, one would like to h...
Inspired by the underlying relationship between classification capability and the mutual information, in this paper, we first establish a quantitative model to describe the inform...
These days, billions of Web pages are created with HTML or other markup languages. They only have a few uniform structures and contain various authoring styles compared to traditi...
Music information retrieval is characterized by a number of various user information needs. Systems are being developed that allow searchers to find melodies, rhythms, genres, an...
It is crucial for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems to deal with the translation of unknown queries1 due to that real queries might be short. The purpose of this...