This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...
Search algorithms incorporating some form of topic model have a long history in information retrieval. For example, cluster-based retrieval has been studied since the 60s and has ...
Combining the output from multiple retrieval sources over the same document collection is of great importance to a number of retrieval tasks such as multimedia retrieval, web retr...
A new methodology to assess transient performance measures of tree-like processes is proposed by introducing the concept of tree-like processes with marked time epochs. As opposed...
Jeroen Van Velthoven, Benny Van Houdt, Chris Blond...
We examine the stability of multi-class queueing systems with the special feature that the service rates of the various classes depend on the number of users present of each of th...