Current networked information systems on the Internet, whilst extremely successful, run into problems of fragmentation, consistency, scalability, and loss of orientation. The deve...
It seems the time is ripe for the two to meet: NLP has grown out of prototypes and IR is having hard time trying to improve precision. Two examples of possible approaches are consi...
It is well known that the use of a good Machine Transliteration system improves the retrieval performance of Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) systems when the query and ...
Raghavendra Udupa, K. Saravanan, Anton Bakalov, Ab...
Discriminatory information about person identity is multimodal. Yet, most person recognition systems are unimodal, e.g. the use of facial appearance. With a view to exploiting the ...
Niall A. Fox, Ralph Gross, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Richar...
— High-speed Internet access in subway and railway systems has been receiving more and more attention in recent years. A critical issue for such application is the ground to trai...