ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Kneser-Ney (1995) smoothing and its variants are generally recognized as having the best perplexity of any known method for estimating N-gram language models. Kneser-Ney smoothing...
ICMLA
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Gene expression (microarray) data have been used widely in bioinformatics. The expression data of a large number of genes from small numbers of subjects are used to identify inform...
MP
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
We introduce an alternative to the smoothing technique approach for constrained optimization. As it turns out for any given smoothing function there exists a modification with part...
ENVSOFT
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
A technique is proposed for smoothing a broken line fit, with known break points, to observational data. It will be referred to as "broken line smoothing". The smoothness...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Recent work on language models for information retrieval has shown that smoothing language models is crucial for achieving good retrieval performance. Many different effective smo...
PAMI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
In this paper, we present a new and efficient method to implement robust smoothing of low-level signal features: B-spline channel smoothing. This method consists of three steps: en...
JPDC
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Quality of service (QoS) assurance is a major concern in media-on-demand (MoD) systems. Admission control is one of the most important issues that need to be addressed for QoS ass...
IR
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Abstract. Document length is widely recognized as an important factor for adjusting retrieval systems. Many models tend to favor the retrieval of either short or long documents and...
CORR
2006
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Springer
While there is a very long tradition of approximating a data array by projecting row or column vectors into a lower dimensional subspace the direct approximation of a data matrix ...
CVIU
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Image smoothing using adaptive windows whose shapes, sizes, and orientations vary with image structure is described. Window size is increased with decreasing gradient magnitude, a...