Query personalization was introduced as an advanced mechanism to allow the reformulation of database queries and adapt them to the user's domain of interest and preferences. ...
The focus of information retrieval evaluations, such as NIST's TREC evaluations (e.g. Voorhees 2003), is on evaluation of the information content of system responses. On the ...
Olga Babko-Malaya, Dan Hunter, Connie Fournelle, J...
Most of the currently existing image retrieval systems make use of either low-level features or semantic (textual) annotations. A combined usage during annotation and retrieval is ...
Information seeking is traditionally conducted in environments where search results are represented at the user interface by a minimal amount of meta-information such as titles an...
We study in this paper the problem of bridging the semantic gap between low-level image features and high-level semantic concepts, which is the key hindrance in content-based imag...