Information retrieval

News and Updates

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NIST and OSTP Launch Effort to Improve Search Engines for COVID-19 Research

April 15, 2020

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the White House Office of Science and

NIST Tools for Searching the Coronavirus Dataset

New resources developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts in natural language processing and data curation and discovery allow researchers to get the most

Projects and Programs

A digital object is composed of Data, Metadata, Protocols & Operations, and Persistent Identifiers.

Facilitating the Adoption of the FAIR Digital Object Framework in Material Science

With increasing use of data-driven methodologies, concerns around data discovery, data access, and data interoperability have come to the forefront. Communities

Content-Based Access to Unstructured Information

This project uses community evaluations to build the infrastructure required to evaluate system effectiveness on information access tasks. In particular, the

Publications

Enriching Standards-Based Digital Thread by Fusing As-Designed and As-Inspected Data Using Ontologies

August 13, 2020

Author(s)

Soonjo Kwon, William Z. Bernstein, Laetitia V. Monnier, Raphael Barbau

Realizing the digital thread is essential for linking and orchestrating data across the product lifecycle in smart manufacturing. Linking heterogeneous

HLVU : A new challenge to test deep understanding of movies the way humans do

June 8, 2020

Author(s)

Keith Curtis, George M. Awad, Shahzad K. Rajput, Ian M. Soboroff

TRECVID 2019: An evaluation campaign to benchmark Video Activity Detection, Video Captioning and Matching, and Video Search & retrieval

March 2, 2020

Author(s)

George M. Awad, Asad A. Butt, Keith Curtis, Yooyoung Lee, Jonathan G. Fiscus, Afzal A. Godil, Andrew P. Delgado, Jesse G. Zhang, Eliot D. Godard, Lukasz L. Diduch, Alan Smeaton, Yvette Graham, Wessel Kraaij, Georges Quenot

Field Compressed Sensing

January 17, 2020

Author(s)

Anthony B. Kos, Fabio C. Da Silva, Jason B. Coder, Craig W. Nelson, Grace E. Antonucci, Archita Hati

Imaging solutions based on wave scattering seek real-time performance, high dynamic range, and spatial accuracy at scales spanning from nanometers to thousands