Publications related to Concept search

impresso Text Reuse at Scale. An interface for the exploration of text reuse data in semantically enriched historical newspapers

Text Reuse reveals meaningful reiterations of text in large corpora. Humanities researchers use text reuse to study, e.g., the posterior reception of influential texts or to reveal evolving publication practices of historical media. This research is often ...

2023

Efficient and Effective Multi-Modal Queries Through Heterogeneous Network Embedding

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thanh Trung Huynh, Thành Tâm Nguyên, Chi Thang Duong

The heterogeneity of today's Web sources requires information retrieval (IR) systems to handle multi-modal queries. Such queries define a user's information needs by different data modalities, such as keywords, hashtags, user profiles, and other media. Rec ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

On Calculating the Minimum Rate for the Cooperative Data Exchange Problem Over Fully Connected Networks

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Su Li

We study the cooperative data exchange problem for fully connected networks. In this problem, nodes make broadcast transmissions to recover a file consisting of K independent packets. Each node initially only possesses a subset of the packets. We propose ( ...

2021

Aligning Multilingual Word Embeddings for Cross-Modal Retrieval Task

Karl Aberer, Rémi Philippe Lebret, Alireza Mohammadshahi

In this paper, we propose a new approach to learn multimodal multilingual embeddings for matching images and their relevant captions in two languages. We combine two existing objective functions to make images and captions close in a joint embedding space ...

Association for Computational Linguistics2019

Environmental Monitoring using Autonomous Vehicles: A Survey of Recent Searching Techniques

Auke Ijspeert, Alessandro Crespi

Autonomous vehicles are becoming an essential tool in a wide range of environmental applications that include ambient data acquisition, remote sensing, and mapping of the spatial extent of pollutant spills. Among these applications, pollution source locali ...

Elsevier2017

Profiling, Modelling and Facilitating Online Activism

Julia Proskurnia

The extensive and successful use of social media has enhanced and empowered a variety of movements all over the world in a way that is hard to achieve through conventional means. This has led to numerous studies that leverage online social data to describe ...

EPFL2017

Template Induction over Unstructured Email Corpora

Julia Proskurnia

Unsupervised template induction over email data is a central component in applications such as information extraction, document classification, and auto-reply. The benefits of automatically generating such templates are known for structured data, e.g. mach ...

Adaptive relevance feedback for large-scale image retrieval

François Fleuret, Nicolae Suditu

Content-based image retrieval aims at substituting traditional indexing based on manual annotation by using automatically-extracted visual indexing features. Novel techniques are needed however to efficiently deal with the semantic gap (i.e. the partial ma ...

2016

5e{x+y}: Searching over Mathematical Content in Digital Libraries

Karl Aberer

This paper presents 5ex+y, a system that is able to extract, index and query mathematical content expressed as mathematical expressions, complementing the CERN Document Server (CDS). We present the most important aspects of its design, our approach to mode ...

ACM2015

Modeling Users' Information Needs in a Document Recommender for Meetings

Maryam Habibi

People are surrounded by an unprecedented wealth of information. Access to it depends on the availability of suitable search engines, but even when these are available, people often do not initiate a search, because their current activity does not allow th ...

EPFL2015

Rapid optimisation of a lactate biosensor design using soft probes scanning electrochemical microscopy

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Fernando Cortes Salazar

We report the mapping of biocatalytically active surfaces, particularly on an express search for optimal immobilization conditions of the enzyme lactate oxidase by means of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM). With this aim, soft stylus SECM probes ...

Elsevier2014

A FFINITY: Efficiently Querying Statistical Measures on Time-Series Data

Karl Aberer, Saket Sathe

Computing statistical measures for large databases of time series is a fundamental primitive for querying and mining time-series data [1]–[6]. This primitive is gaining importance with the increasing number and rapid growth of time series databases. In thi ...

IEEE2013

TweetSpector: Entity-based retrieval of Tweets

Karl Aberer, Zoltán Miklós, Surender Reddy Yerva, Flavia Adelina Grosan, Alexandru Octavian Tandrau

People readily express their opinions about the various products, companies, TV shows etc., on Twitter. These tweet messages are thus a rich source of information that can be exploited to understand the sentiments about the concerned products or services. ...

2012

Simplified models for LHC new physics searches

Roberto Franceschini, Tao Liu, Jing Shu, Tao Han, Yue Zhao, Yang Bai

This document proposes a collection of simplified models relevant to the design of new-physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the characterization of their results. Both ATLAS and CMS have already presented some results in terms of simplif ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

Omnidirectional object duplicate detection

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lutz Goldmann, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda

With the technological evolution of digital acquisition and content analysis, millions of images and video sequences are captured every day and used in a large variety of applications. As keyword-based indexing is very time consuming and inefficient due to ...

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Advanced Search, Visualization and Tagging of Sensor Metadata

Karl Aberer, Ho Young Jeung, Ioannis Paparrizos

As sensors continue to proliferate, the capabilities of effectively querying not only sensor data but also its metadata becomes important in a wide range of applications. This paper demonstrates a search system that utilizes various techniques and tools fo ...

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Query-Driven Indexing for Scalable Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval

Karl Aberer, Martin Rajman, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Vinh Toan Luu, Ivana Podnar

In this paper, we present a query-driven indexing/retrieval strategy for efficient full text retrieval from large document collections distributed within a structured P2P network. Our indexing strategy is based on two important properties: (1) the generate ...

2009

Query-driven indexing in large-scale distributed systems

Gleb Skobeltsyn

Efficient and effective search in large-scale data repositories requires complex indexing solutions deployed on a large number of servers. Web search engines such as Google and Yahoo! already rely upon complex systems to be able to return relevant query re ...

EPFL2009

Query-Driven Indexing for Scalable Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval

Karl Aberer, Martin Rajman, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Vinh Toan Luu, Ivana Podnar

We present a query-driven algorithm for the distributed indexing of large document collections within structured P2P networks. To cope with bandwidth consumption that has been identified as the major problem for the standard P2P approach with single term i ...

2009

Conceptual modeling of multimedia databases

Oleksandr Drutskyy

The gap between the semantic content of multimedia data and its underlying physical representation is one of the main problems in the modern multimedia research in general, and, in particular, in the field of multimedia database modeling. We believe that o ...

EPFL2009