We study graphical modeling in the case of stringvalued random variables. Whereas a weighted finite-state transducer can model the probabilistic relationship between two strings, ...
The increased use of video data sets for multimedia-based applications has created a demand for strong video database support, including efficient methods for handling the content...
Walid G. Aref, Moustafa A. Hammad, Ann Christine C...
Pseudo-relevance feedback has proven to be an effective strategy for improving retrieval accuracy in all retrieval models. However the performance of existing pseudo feedback meth...
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is regarded generally as having promise of becoming established as the general purpose framework for enabling transfer of data amongst heterog...
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...