Object-level image retrieval is an active area of research. Given an image, a human observerdoesnot see randomdots of colors. Rather,he she observesfamiliarobjectsin the image. The...
This paper summarizes the task design for iCLEF 2006 (the CLEF interactive track). Compared to previous years, we have proposed a radically new task: searching images in a natural...
We describe a new approach to information retrieval: algorithmic mediation for intentional, synchronous collaborative exploratory search. Using our system, two or more users with ...
Jeremy Pickens, Gene Golovchinsky, Chirag Shah, Pe...
Meaningful evaluation of web search must take account of spam. Here we conduct a user experiment to investigate whether satisfaction with search engine result pages as a whole is ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Paul Thomas, Ramesh ...
Well tuned Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) has been shown to generally be more effective than vocabulary-independent techniques for ranked retrieval of spo...