Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) facilitates the use of one language to access documents in other languages. Crosslanguage information extraction (CLIE) extracts releva...
Patent search tasks are difficult and challenging, often requiring expert patent analysts to spend hours, even days, sourcing relevant information. To aid them in this process, an...
In some information retrieval scenarios, for example internal help desk systems, texts are entered into the document collection without proofreading. This can result in a relative...
This paper investigates whether Web comments can be exploited for cross-media retrieval. Comparing Web items such as texts, images, videos, music, products, or personal profiles ...
Users commonly rely just on scarce textual annotation when their searches for images are semantic or conceptual based. Rich visual information is often thrown away in basic annota...