The increasing use of Web for both scholarly publishing and information retrieval emphasizes the need for mechanisms to support efficient indexing and effective information retrieval. Manual indexing and knowledge ...

Document retrieval is one of the best-established information retrieval activities since the ’60s, pervading all search engines. Its aim is to obtain, from a collection of text documents, those most relevant to a ...

The number of images available has grown over the years, as well as the number of techniques to aid to organizing and retrieving from image collections. Techniques and systems have been proposed to recover images based on ...

The number of images available has grown over the years, as well as the number of techniques to aid to organizing and retrieving from image collections. Techniques and systems have been proposed to recover images based on ...

Information Retrieval is responsible for the storage and automatic retrieval of information, and these documents may consist of texts, web pages, audio, video, images, graphics and figures. Information Retrieval techniques ...

Traditional content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems use low-level features such as colors, shapes, and textures of images. Although, users make queries based on semantics, which are not easily related to such low-level ...

​​Around the world, a great number of people have ideas on how to help their own communities. However, in most cases, these ideas never get the chance to be put into practice and to produce any real changes. To address ...