Abstract. A key challenge in information retrieval is the use of contextual evidence within ad-hoc retrieval. Our contribution is particularly based on the belief that contextual r...
Question answering (QA) on table data is a challenging information retrieval task. This paper describes a QA system for tables created with both machine learning and heuristic tab...
The dream of pervasive multimedia retrieval and reuse will not be realized without incorporating semantics in the multimedia database. As video data is penetrating many informatio...
Clustering and retrieval of web pages dominantly relies on analyzing either the content of individual web pages or the link structure between them. Some literature also suggests t...
We introduce perturbation kernels, a new class of similarity measure for information retrieval that casts word similarity in terms of multi-task learning. Perturbation kernels mode...