We query the pictures of Yahoo! News for persons and objects by using the accompanying news captions as an indexing annotation. Our aim is to find these pictures on top of the answer list in which the sought persons or objects are most prominently present. We demonstrate that an appearance or content model based on syntactic, semantic and discourse analysis of the short news text is only useful...

In this paper, we propose an unsupervised approach to automatically synthesize Wikipedia articles in multiple languages. Taking an existing high-quality version of any entry as content guideline, we extract keywords from it and use the translated keywords to query the monolingual web of the target language. Candidate excerpts or sentences are selected based on an iterative ranking function and ...

Microblogging is prominent e-communication medium on which short story are updated by the user based on their personal matter and other happening or coming immediate information. The quantity of information is large and also most of the data are redundant or irrelevant because of their popularity. This paper provides effectual techniques for summarization of inside story on microblogs sites suc...

Purpose Making techniques PROMETHEE, direction of research in this emerging field. Design/Methodology/Approach: literature related to MCDM techniques PROMETHEE, ELECTRE, VIKOR and TOPSIS. Literature has been segregated to understand various issues and work related to MCDM techniques PROMETHEE, ELECTRE, VIKOR and TOPSIS. A detailed review is used to sort out the literature and develop the resear...

Information retrieval diiers signiicantly from function approximation in that the goal is for the system to achieve the same ranking function of documents relative to queries as the user: the outputs of the system relative to one another must be in the proper order. We hypothesize that a particular rank-order statistic, Guttman's point alienation, is the proper objective function for such a sys...