When performing discussion search it might be desirable to consider non-topical measures like the number of positive and negative replies to a posting, for instance as one possibl...
Access to real environments is often conditioned by a number of issues, including the skills of the user (i.e. affected by aging, physical and psychological deficiencies, etc.) an...
Large sparse matrices play important role in many modern information retrieval methods. These methods, such as clustering, latent semantic indexing, performs huge number of computa...
Many of the multimedia researchers have focused on the issue of the retrieval of images using indexed image collections. A number of spatial data structures based on Minimum Bound...
We illustrate that Web searches can often be utilized to generate background text for use with text classification. This is the case because there are frequently many pages on the...