: We describe our participation in the TREC 2004 Web and Terabyte tracks. For the web track, we employ mixture language models based on document full-text, incoming anchortext, and...
Automatic image annotation is a promising solution to enable more effective image retrieval by keywords. Traditionally, statistical models for image auto-annotation predicate each...
Yong Ge, Richang Hong, Zhiwei Gu, Rong Zhang, Xiuq...
The combination of evidence can increase retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a decision mechanism for the selective combination of evidence...
This paper reports on an experimental study on the differences between spoken and written queries. A set of written and spontaneous spoken queries are generated by users from writ...
Motivated by the need to efficiently leverage user relevance feedback in content-based retrieval from image databases, we propose a fast, clustering-based indexing technique for e...