Publications related to Document retrieval

From scattered sources to comprehensive technology landscape : A recommendation-based retrieval approach

Mapping the technology landscape is crucial for market actors to take informed investment decisions. However, given the large amount of data on the Web and its subsequent information overload, manually retrieving information is a seemingly ineffective and ...

ELSEVIER2023

Interpretable Representation Learning and Evaluation for Abstractive Summarization

Andreas Thomas Marfurt

Abstractive summarization has seen big improvements in recent years, mostly due to advances in neural language modeling, language model pretraining, and scaling models and datasets. While large language models generate summaries that are fluent, coherent, ...

EPFL2023

Graph Embedding for Retrieval

Chi Thang Duong

Information retrieval (IR) systems such as search engines are important for people to find what they need among the tremendous amount of data available in their organization or on the Internet. These IR systems enable users to search in a large data collec ...

EPFL2022

Fast iterative retrieval algorithm for ultrashort pulse characterization using dispersion scans

João Miguel Augusto Penedones Fernandes

We present an iterative retrieval algorithm based on data constraint for ultrashort pulse characterization using dispersion scan (d-scan). The proposed algorithm is much faster and leads to a drastic reduction of retrieval times, but, compared to the stand ...

Optical Society of America2017

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

Learning Explainable User Sentiment and Preferences for Information Filtering

Nikolaos Pappas

In the last decade, online social networks have enabled people to interact in many ways with each other and with content. The digital traces of such actions reveal people's preferences towards online content such as news or products. These traces often res ...

EPFL2016

Interactive Synthesis using Free-Form Queries

Viktor Kuncak, Tihomir Gvero

We present a new code assistance tool for integrated development environments. Our system accepts free-form queries allowing a mixture of English and Java as an input, and produces Java code fragments that take the query into account and respect syntax, ty ...

2015

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

Synergy of hyperspectral and microwave remote sensing data to derive bio- and geo-physical parameters for land applications

Jelena Stamenkovic

Retrieval of bio/geophysical variables from remote sensing imagery is an important research field. Due to the development and availability of different EO satellites, especially the ones with hyperspectral sensors, the combined use of radar and optical ima ...

EPFL2015

Synthesizing Java Expressions from Free-Form Queries

Viktor Kuncak, Tihomir Gvero

We present a new code assistance tool for integrated development environments. Our system accepts as input free-form queries containing a mixture of English and Java, and produces Java code expressions that take the query into account and respect syntax, t ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

Multimedia content analysis for emotional characterization of music video clips

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ashkan Yazdani, Evangelos Skodras

Nowadays, tags play an important role in the search and retrieval process in multimedia content sharing social networks. As the amount of multimedia contents explosively increases, it is a challenging problem to find a content that will be appealing to the ...

Springer International Publishing Ag2013

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

Selection and Aggregation of Ranking Criteria for Retrieval from Scientific Publication Databases

Martin Veselý

Selection and aggregation of ranking criteria became an important topic in information retrieval as search is getting more specialized and as volume of electronically available information grows. In this context, document ranking has undergone a shift from ...

EPFL2012

Retrieval of occluded images using DCT phase and region merging

Pierre-André Farine, Sara Grassi Pauletti, Pradyumna Ayyalasomayajula

In this paper we present an efficient method for Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) of occluded images using DCT-phase. The proposed method utilizes a novel correlation metric for ternary-valued DCT-phase, as well as a region merging method to reconstruc ...

IEEE2012

Spam Fighting in Social Tagging Systems

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Sasan Yazdani

Tagging in online social networks is very popular these days, as it facilitates search and retrieval of diverse resources available online. However, noisy and spam annotations often make it difficult to perform an efficient search. Users may make mistakes ...

Springer-Verlag2012

LDAHash: Improved Matching with Smaller Descriptors

Pascal Fua, Christoph Strecha

SIFT-like local feature descriptors are ubiquitously employed in computer vision applications such as content-based retrieval, video analysis, copy detection, object recognition, photo tourism, and 3D reconstruction. Feature descriptors can be designed to ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Method of data retrieval, and search engine using such a method

Saket Sathe, Gleb Skobeltsyn

A method of data retrieval from a data repository in response to a query having either list of keywords and/or list of attribute-value pairs, the method comprising the steps of: providing an inverted index generated from the data repository, the inverted i ...

2011

Affective content analysis of music video clip

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ashkan Yazdani, Krista Kappeler

Nowadays, the amount of multimedia contents is explosively increasing and it is often a challenging problem to find a con- tent that will be appealing or matches users’ current mood or affective state. In order to achieve this goal, an efficient indexing t ...

ACM2011

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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Fisher Kernels and Probabilistic Latent Semantic Models

Emmanuel Eckard

Tasks that rely on semantic content of documents, notably Information Retrieval and Document Classification, can benefit from a good account of document context, i.e. the semantic association between documents. To this effect, the scheme of latent semantic ...

EPFL2010