The lack of a large scale Chinese test collection is an obstacle to the Chinese information retrieval development. In order to address this issue, we built such a collection compos...
Portable, reusable test collections are a vital part of research and development in information retrieval. Reusability is difficult to assess, however. The standard approach— si...
Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu...
The availability of high density single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) data has made genome-wide association study computationally challenging. Twolocus epistasis (gene-gene inter...
This paper discusses the use of instant messaging (IM) as a communication tool during usability studies ? primarily between the interview and observation rooms. The benefits and c...
We investigate a practical approach to solving one instantiation of a distributed hypothesis testing problem under severe rate constraints that shows up in a wide variety of appli...