We describe a method for applying parsimonious language models to re-estimate the term probabilities assigned by relevance models. We apply our method to six topic sets from test ...
Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maar...
— The efficiency of overlay networks built on top of the IP network is often threatened by the mismatch between the topologies of the overlay and the underlying IP network, resu...
Abstract We propose a procedure based on a latent variable model for the comparison of two partitions of different units described by the same set of variables. The null hypothesis...
In this paper a new Query Performance Prediction method is introduced. This method is based on the hypothesis that different score distributions appear for ‘hard’ and ‘easy...
Abstract. We consider temporal logic formulae specifying constraints in continuous time and space on the behaviors of continuous and hybrid dynamical system admitting uncertain par...