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SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 12 months ago
Information shared by many objects
If Kolmogorov complexity [25] measures information in one object and Information Distance [4, 23, 24, 42] measures information shared by two objects, how do we measure information...
Chong Long, Xiaoyan Zhu, Ming Li, Bin Ma
ICCV
2009
IEEE
1188views Computer Vision» more  ICCV 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Actionable Information in Vision
I propose a notion of visual information as the complexity not of the raw images, but of the images after the effects of nuisance factors such as viewpoint and illumination are dis...
Stefano Soatto
SAGT
2009
Springer
108views Game Theory» more  SAGT 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
On the Planner's Loss Due to Lack of Information in Bayesian Mechanism Design
In this paper we study a large class of resource allocation problems with an important complication, the utilization cost of a given resource is private information of a profit ma...
José R. Correa, Nicolas Figueroa
HICSS
2006
IEEE
189views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
15 years 4 months ago
Barriers to Information Access across Languages on the Internet: Network and Language Effects
This paper investigates the role of language in accessing information on the Internet. We combined data about website visitors through log-file analysis with data about web-hosts ...
Anett Kralisch, Thomas Mandl