User modeling for information retrieval has mostly been studied to improve the effectiveness of information access in centralized repositories. In this paper we explore user model...
This paper addresses the issue of devising a new document prior for the language modeling (LM) approach for Information Retrieval. The prior is based on term statistics, derived in...
The problem of information overload has been addressed by several systems. However, many approaches are limited to informal artifacts and need to refer to the user for reference o...
One of the Web information Retrieval (IR) problems these days is to identify redundant information that exist in (replicated) Web documents. These documents can easily be found in...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a deformable-model based solution for segmenting objects with complex texture patterns of all scales. The external image forces in traditional d...
Xiaolei Huang, Zhen Qian, Rui Huang, Dimitris N. M...