In this paper, we propose a novel dependency language modeling approach for information retrieval. The approach extends the existing language modeling approach by relaxing the ind...
Time on task is an important predictor for how much students learn. However, students must be focused on their learning for the time invested to be productive. Unfortunately, stude...
Topic distillation is one of the main information needs when users search the Web. In previous approaches to topic distillation, the single page was treated as the basic searching ...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, Guang Feng, W...
This year, we have participated on multilingual two years on and Multi-8 merging-only CLEF task. Our main interest has been to test several usual CLIR tasks and investigate how th...
In this paper we approach the problem of fast surface grading of flat pieces decorated with random patterns. The proposed method is based on the use of global statistics of color ...