The paper studies empirically the time-space trade-off between sampling and inference in the cutset sampling algorithm. The algorithm samples over a subset of nodes in a Bayesian ...
Gesture recognition is a common method of text input on handheld and other pen-based computing devices. Xstroke is a full-screen gesture recognition program for the X Window Syste...
The impact of using phrases as content representation for documents and for queries has generally been accepted as a desirable feature in information retrieval systems because phr...
Even as they enjoy impressive growth, one of the major challenges facing providers of online services is a high rate of customer turnover. It has adverse impacts on business perfo...
Experiments relating to TREC-7 Ad Hoc, HP and VLC tasks are described and results reported. Minor re nements of last year's Ad Hoc methods do not appear to have resulted in w...
David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Paul B. Thistlewaite