The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...
The protection of personal health information has become a live issue in a number of countries including the USA, Canada, Britain and Germany. The debate has shown that there is w...
We present a novel method for discovering and modeling the relationship between informal Chinese expressions (including colloquialisms and instant-messaging slang) and their forma...
In this paper, a competition-based connectionist model for diagnostic problem-solving is adapted to information retrieval. In this model, we treat documents as \disorders" an...
Information-driven networks include a large category of networking systems, where network nodes are aware of information delivered and thus can not only forward data packets but m...