We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
In an earlier study a Semantic Content Based Image Retrieval system was developed. The system requires a Visual Object Process Diagram - VOPD to be created for each image in the d...
The Cambridge University Multimedia Document Retrieval Demo System is a web based application that allows the user to query a database of automatically generated transcripts of ra...
A. Tuerk, Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Karen Sparck...
In professional environments which are characterized by a domain (Medicine, Law, etc.), information retrieval systems must be able to process precise queries, mostly because of the...
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...