Abstract. The purpose of information extraction (IE) is to find desired pieces of information in natural language texts and store them in a form that is suitable for automatic pro...
Proximity searching consists in retrieving from a database, objects that are close to a query. For this type of searching problem, the most general model is the metric space, where...
Patch descriptors are used for a variety of tasks ranging from finding corresponding points across images, to describing object category parts. In this paper, we propose an image ...
Search result diversification is a natural approach for tackling ambiguous queries. Nevertheless, not all queries are equally ambiguous, and hence different queries could bene...
The problem of information overload has been addressed by several systems. However, many approaches are limited to informal artifacts and need to refer to the user for reference o...