MS Read is a prototype application implemented as an extension of the Web Browser that creates an evolving model of the users topic of interest. It uses that model to analyze documents that are accessed while searching and browsing the Web. In the ...

This demonstration will show describe the construction and application of Cross-Domain Information Servers using features of the standard Z39.50 information retrieval protocol[Z39.50]. The system is currently being used to build and search distributed ...

In this demonstration, we present interoperable and personalized search services for the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). Using standard protocols and software, including those specified by the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)...

Query clustering is crucial for automatically discovering frequently asked queries (FAQs) or most popular topics on a question-answering search engine. Due to the short length of queries, the traditional approaches based on keywords are not suitable for ...

We introduce a method for document classification based on using the chi-square test to identify characteristic vocabulary of document classes.

Web document hierarchical classification approaches often rely on textual features alone even though web pages include multimedia data. We propose a new hierarchical integrated web classification approach that combines image-based and text-based ...

This paper introduces a personalization method for image retrieval based on the learning of personal preferences. The proposed system indexes objects based on shape and groups them into a set of clusters, or prototypes. Our personalization method ...

An ideal retrieval system should retrieve images that satisfy the user's need, and should, therefore, measure image similarity in a manner consistent with human's perception. However, existing computational similarity measures are not perceptually ...

The Web is a valuable source of language specific resources but collecting, organizing and utilizing this information is difficult. We describe CorpusBuilder, an approach for automatically generating Web-search queries to collect documents in a minority ...

Many web pages have implicit structure. In this paper, we show the feasibility of automatically extracting data from web pages by using approximate matching techniques. This can be applied to generate automatic wrappers or to notify/display web page ...

A method of assisting a user in finding the required documents effectively is proposed. A user being informed which documents are worth examining can browse in a digital library (DL) in a linear fashion. Computational evaluations were carried out, and a ...

In this paper we describe a type of data fusion involving the combination of evidence derived from multiple document representations. Our aim is to investigate if a composite representation can improve the online detection of novel events in a stream of ...

Relevance feedback is an appreciated process to produce increasingly better retrieval. Usually, positive feedback plays a fundamental role in the feedback process whereas the role of negative feedback is limited. We think that negative feedback is a ...