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Obtaining semantic labels on a large scale radiology image database (215,786 key images from 61,845 unique patients) is a prerequisite yet bottleneck to train highly effective deep convolutional neural network (CNN) models for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-28 Xiaosong Wang , Le Lu , Hoo-chang Shin , Lauren Kim , Isabella Nogues , Jianhua Yao , Ronald Summers

Learned sparse retrieval (LSR) is a popular method for first-stage retrieval because it combines the semantic matching of language models with efficient CPU-friendly algorithms. Previous work aggregates blocks into "superblocks" to quickly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Parker Carlson , Wentai Xie , Rohil Shah , Tao Yang

Handwriting recognition is one of the desirable attributes of document comprehension and analysis. It is concerned with the documents writing style and characteristics that distinguish the authors. The diversity of text images, notably in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Vineet Kumar , Suresh Sundaram

Text-independent writer identification is challenging due to the huge variation of written contents and the ambiguous written styles of different writers. This paper proposes DeepWriter, a deep multi-stream CNN to learn deep powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Linjie Xing , Yu Qiao

Distributional text clustering delivers semantically informative representations and captures the relevance between each word and semantic clustering centroids. We extend the neural text clustering approach to text classification tasks by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Yekun Chai , Haidong Zhang , Shuo Jin

Text retrieval using learned sparse representations of queries and documents has, over the years, evolved into a highly effective approach to search. It is thanks to recent advances in approximate nearest neighbor search-with the emergence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Sebastian Bruch , Martino Fontana , Franco Maria Nardini , Cosimo Rulli , Rossano Venturini

Generative Retrieval (GR) is an emerging paradigm in information retrieval that leverages generative models to directly map queries to relevant document identifiers (DocIDs) without the need for traditional query processing or document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tzu-Lin Kuo , Tzu-Wei Chiu , Tzung-Sheng Lin , Sheng-Yang Wu , Chao-Wei Huang , Yun-Nung Chen

In this article we propose a novel method to perform unsupervised clustering of different forms of Institute names. We use only author and affiliation metadata to perform the clustering without any string or pattern matching. After…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Achal Agrawal , Jeet Mukherjee

We present a supervised learning algorithm for text categorization which has brought the team of authors the 2nd place in the text categorization division of the 2012 Cybersecurity Data Mining Competition (CDMC'2012) and a 3rd prize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-07-11 Hubert Haoyang Duan , Vladimir Pestov , Varun Singla

We propose a novel approach for semi-supervised learning (SSL) designed to overcome distribution shifts between training and real-world data arising in the keyword spotting (KWS) task. Shifts from training data distribution are a key…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi , Lu Zeng , Christin Jose , Joseph Wang

Traditional information retrieval systems rely on keywords to index documents and queries. In such systems, documents are retrieved based on the number of shared keywords with the query. This lexical-focused retrieval leads to inaccurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Fatiha Boubekeur , Wassila Azzoug

We show how full-text search based on inverted indices can be accelerated by clustering the documents without losing results (SeCluD -- SEarch with CLUstered Documents). We develop a fast multilevel clustering algorithm that explicitly uses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Jonathan Dimond , Peter Sanders

Weakly-supervised text classification has received much attention in recent years for it can alleviate the heavy burden of annotating massive data. Among them, keyword-driven methods are the mainstream where user-provided keywords are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Lu Zhang , Jiandong Ding , Yi Xu , Yingyao Liu , Shuigeng Zhou

Handwritten text recognition is an open problem of great interest in the area of automatic document image analysis. The transcription of handwritten content present in digitized documents is significant in analyzing historical archives or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jorge Sueiras

The hierarchical structure inherent in many real-world datasets makes the modeling of such hierarchies a crucial objective in both unsupervised and supervised machine learning. While recent advancements have introduced deep architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Emanuele Palumbo , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Alain Ryser , Imant Daunhawer , Julia E. Vogt

Large language model (LLM) based listwise reranking has emerged as the dominant paradigm for achieving state-of-the-art ranking effectiveness in information retrieval. However, its reliance on feeding full passage texts into the LLM…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Xiaojie Ke , Shuai Zhang , Liansheng Sun , Yongjin Wang , Hengjun Jiang , Xiangkun Liu , Cunxin Gu , Jian Xu , Guanjun Jiang

We propose and analyze a method for semi-supervised learning from partially-labeled network-structured data. Our approach is based on a graph signal recovery interpretation under a clustering hypothesis that labels of data points belonging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Alexander Jung , Alfred O. Hero , Alexandru Mara , Saeed Jahromi , Ayelet Heimowitz , Yonina C. Eldar

Content Based Image Retrieval(CBIR) is one of the important subfield in the field of Information Retrieval. The goal of a CBIR algorithm is to retrieve semantically similar images in response to a query image submitted by the end user. CBIR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-09-03 Vikas Verma

Text independent writer identification is a challenging problem that differentiates between different handwriting styles to decide the author of the handwritten text. Earlier writer identification relied on handcrafted features to reveal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Abhishek Srivastava , Sukalpa Chanda , Umapada Pal

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables researchers to analyze gene expression at single-cell level. One important task in scRNA-seq data analysis is unsupervised clustering, which helps identify distinct cell types, laying down the…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-29 Weikang Jiang , Jinxian Wang , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou