This thesis considers concept-based multimedia retrieval, where documents are represented by the occurrence of concepts (also referred to as semantic concepts or high-level features). A concept can be thought of as a kind of label, which is attached to (parts of) the multimedia documents in which it
In this thesis we consider users’ attempts to express their information needs through queries, or search requests and try to predict whether those requests will be of high or low quality. Intuitively, a query’s quality is determined by the outcome of the query, that is, whether the retrieved search
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