With digital still cameras, users can easily collect thousands of photos. We have created a photo management application with the goal of making photo organization and browsing si...
Noun phrases in queries are identified and classified into four types: proper names, dictionary phrases, simple phrases and complex phrases. A document has a phrase if all content...
IR with reference corpus is one approach when dealing with relevant sentences detection, which takes the result of IR as the representation of query (sentence). Lack of informatio...
It is crucial in many information systems to organize short text segments, such as keywords in documents and queries from users, into a well-formed topic hierarchy. In this paper,...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags that add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid quer...