As digital information is increasingly becoming multimodal, the days of single-language text-only retrieval are numbered. Take as an example Wikipedia where a single topic may be covered in several languages and include ...

This paper tackles the problem of the user’s incapability to describe exactly the image that he seeks by introducing an innovative image search engine called TsoKaDo. Until now the traditional web image search was based ...

Rank-based fusion is indispensable in multiple search setups in lack of item retrieval scores, such as in meta-search with non-cooperative engines. We introduce a novel, simple, and efficient method for rank-based late ...