We describe a method for applying parsimonious language models to re-estimate the term probabilities assigned by relevance models. We apply our method to six topic sets from test ...
Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maar...
Meaning shifting phenomena such as metonymy have recently attracted increasing interest of researchers. Though these phenomena have been addressed by plenty of computational metho...
Numerical Abstract Domains via Principal Component Analysis Gianluca Amato, Maurizio Parton, and Francesca Scozzari Universit`a di Chieti-Pescara – Dipartimento di Scienze We pro...
The Slot Filling task requires a system to automatically distill information from a large document collection and return answers for a query entity with specified attributes (`slot...
Zheng Chen, Suzanne Tamang, Adam Lee, Xiang Li, Ma...
Abstract Kernel-based object tracking refers to computing the translation of an isotropic object kernel from one video frame to the next. The kernel is commonly chosen as a primiti...