Abstract. Smooth boosting algorithms are variants of boosting methods which handle only smooth distributions on the data. They are proved to be noise-tolerant and can be used in th...
Indexing time series data is an interesting problem that has attracted much interest in the research community for the last decade. Traditional indexing methods organize the data ...
Since 1995, much work has been done creating protocols for private information retrieval (PIR). Many variants of the basic PIR model have been proposed, including such modificati...
Research on relevance feedback (RFB) in information retrieval (IR) has given mixed results. Success in RFB seems to depend on the searcher's willingness to provide feedback a...
This paper presents methods to improve retrieval of Out-OfVocabulary (OOV) terms in a Spoken Term Detection (STD) system. We demonstrate that automated tagging of OOV regions help...