Hidden markov model (HMM) is frequently used for Pinyin-toChinese conversion. But it only captures the dependency with the preceding character. Higher order markov models can brin...
Variable Data Printing (VDP) has brought new flexibility and dynamism to the printed page. Each printed instance of a specific class of document can now have different degrees of ...
Steven R. Bagley, David F. Brailsford, James A. Ol...
Raster maps are widely available and contain useful geographic features such as labels and road lines. To extract the geographic features, most research work relies on a manual st...
Personalization has been deemed one of the major challenges in information retrieval with a significant potential for providing better search experience to individual users. Espec...
Julia Luxenburger, Shady Elbassuoni, Gerhard Weiku...
Query logs record the queries and the actions of the users of search engines, and as such they contain valuable information about the interests, the preferences, and the behavior ...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, De...