A new language and inference algorithm for stochastic modeling is presented. This work refines and generalizes the stochastic functional language originally proposed by [1]. The l...
Ranking blog posts that express opinions regarding a given topic should serve a critical function in helping users. We explored a couple of methods for opinion retrieval in the fr...
We introduce in this paper the family of information-based models for ad hoc information retrieval. These models draw their inspiration from a long-standing hypothesis in IR, name...
This paper presents a novel approach to model the complex motion of human using a probabilistic autoregressive moving average model. The parameters of the model are adaptively tun...
Mohammad Hossein Ghaeminia, Amir Hossein Shabani, ...
Discrete-Time Markov Chains (DTMCs) are a widely-used formalism to model probabilistic systems. On the one hand, available tools like PRISM or MRMC offer efficient model checking a...