Evaluation forums such as TREC allow systematic measurement and comparison of information retrieval techniques. The goal is consistent improvement, based on reliable comparison of...
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Web...
Motion information is an important cue for human to perceive video content. However, it is hard to use motion in video retrieval due to the lack of effective representation. In th...
Retrieval queries that combine structural constraints with keyword search represent a significant challenge to XML data management systems. Queries are expected to be answered as...
Mariano P. Consens, Xin Gu, Yaron Kanza, Flavio Ri...
XML databases often contain documents comprising structured text. Therefore, it is important to integrate "information retrieval style" query evaluation, which is well-s...
Automatic image annotation has attracted a lot of attention recently as a method for facilitating semantic indexing and text-based retrieval of visual content. In this paper, we pr...