The execution time of a large query depends mainly on the memory utilization which should avoid disk accesses for intermediate results. Poor memory management can hurt performance ...
"Human computation" is a recent approach that extracts information from large numbers of Web users. reCAPTCHA is a human computation project that improves the process of...
Most casual users of IR systems type short queries. Recent research has shown that adding new words to these queries via adhoc feedback improves the retrieval e ectiveness of such ...
The use of Application Specific Instruction-set Processors (ASIP) in embedded systems is a solution to the problem of increasing complexity in the functions these systems have to ...
Giuseppe Ascia, Vincenzo Catania, Maurizio Palesi,...
This paper introduces a scheme, which we call the baseline method, to define a measure of term representativeness and measures defined by using the scheme. The representativeness ...