Precise automated video search is gaining in importance as the amount of multimedia information is increasing at exponential rates. One of the drawbacks that make video retrieval ...
MNIS-TextWise Labs participated in the TREC-9 Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval track. The focus of our research for this participation has been on rapidly adding Chine...
Miguel E. Ruiz, Steve Rowe, Maurice Forrester, Par...
This work proposes a novel cautious surfer to incorporate trust into the process of calculating authority for web pages. We evaluate a total of sixty queries over two large, real-...
We propose a language-model-based ranking approach for SPARQLlike queries on entity-relationship graphs. Our ranking model supports exact matching, approximate structure matching,...
We introduce a novel approach to combining rankings from multiple retrieval systems. We use a logistic regression model or an SVM to learn a ranking from pairwise document prefere...