Often Web database users experience difficulty in articulating their needs using a precise query. Providing ranked set of possible answers would benefit such users. We propose to ...
We present an application for accessing and creating socially constructed sets of information. Users store and retrieve information, such as bits of text, through the use of "...
In an environment of distributed text collections, the first step in the information retrieval process is to identify which of all available collections are more relevant to a giv...
In this paper we review the evaluation of relevance feedback methods for content-based image retrieval systems. We start out by presenting an overview of current common practice, ...
It has been shown that using phrases properly in the document retrieval leads to higher retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we define four types of noun phrases and present an...
Wei Zhang, Shuang Liu, Clement T. Yu, Chaojing Sun...