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Fast Approximate Spoken Term Detection from Sequence of Phonemes

We investigate the detection of spoken terms in conversational speech using phoneme recognition with the objective of achieving smaller index size as well as faster search speed. Speech is processed and indexed as a sequence of one best phoneme sequence. W ...

IDIAP2008

AlvisP2P: Scalable Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval in a Structured P2P Network

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

In this paper we present the AlvisP2P IR engine, which enables efficient retrieval with multi-keyword queries from a global document collection available in a P2P network. In such a network, each peer publishes its local index and invests a part of its loc ...

2008

Search Technologies for the Internet

Monika Henzinger

About 20% of the world's population uses the web, and a large majority thereof uses web search engines to find information. As a result many web researchers are devoting much effort to improving the speed and capabilitiy of search technology. ...

2007

Web Text Retrieval with a P2P Query-Driven Index

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

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 ...

2007

A Model of Search Intermediaries and Paid Referrals

Thomas Alois Weber

In this paper we pursue three main objectives: (1) to develop a model of an intermediated search market in which matching between consumers and firms takes place primarily via paid referrals; (2) to address the question of designing a suitable mechanism fo ...

2007

Google Portrait

Sébastien Marcel

This paper presents a system to retrieve and browse images from the Internet containing only one particular object of interest: the human face. This system, called Google Portrait, uses Google Image search engine to retrieve images matching a text query an ...

IDIAP2007

Scalable Peer-to-Peer Web Retrieval with Highly Discriminative Keys

Karl Aberer, Martin Rajman, Vinh Toan Luu, Ivana Podnar, Fabius Klemm

The suitability of peer-to-peer (P2P) approaches for full-text Web retrieval has recently been questioned because of the claimed unacceptable bandwidth consumption induced by retrieval from very large document collections. In this contribution we formalize ...

IEEE2007

A window-based automatic hardware/software partitioning heuristic

Hadi Parandeh Afshar

System-level design decisions such as HW/SW partitioning, target architecture selection and scheduler selection are some of the main concerns of current complex system-on-chip (SOC) designs. In this paper, a novel window-based heuristic is proposed that ad ...

2007

Overview of JPSearch: a Standard for Image Search and Retrieval

Touradj Ebrahimi, Frédéric Dufaux, Michael Ansorge

In this paper, we review the on-going JPSearch standardization activity. Its goal is to provide a standard for interoperability for image search and retrieval systems. More specifically, JPSearch aims at defining the interfaces and protocols for data excha ...

2007

Distributed link-based ranking in P2P Web retrieval

Jie Wu

One of the main differences between modern search engines and traditional ones is the adoption of link-based ranking algorithm in ordering Web documents. Google has claimed that it is its link-based ranking algorithm, PageRank that has made the quality of ...

EPFL2006

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