We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) tasks are evaluated using a cost function. The standard TDT cost function assumes a constant probability of relevance P(rel) across all topics. ...
This is the second time we participate in TREC Blog Track. There are three main tasks in the track, relevant finding task, opinion finding task and polarity task. In this year, we ...
Spatial data are common in many scientific and commercial domains such as geographical information systems and gene/protein expression profiles. Querying for distribution patterns...
Vishwakarma Singh, Arnab Bhattacharya, Ambuj K. Si...
Abstract. Local similarity computation between two sequences permits detecting all the relevant alignments present between subsequences thereof. A well-known dynamic programming al...