Probability theory is the framework for making decision under uncertainty. In classification, Bayes' rule is used to calculate the probabilities of the classes and it is a bi...
Mohammed J. Islam, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Majid Ahmadi...
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
We consider the following full-text search autocompletion feature. Imagine a user of a search engine typing a query. Then with every letter being typed, we would like an instant d...
In applications of biometric databases the typical task is to identify individuals according to features which are not exactly known. Reasons for this inexactness are varying meas...
Despite the widespread use of BM25, there have been few studies examining its effectiveness on a document description over single and multiple field combinations. We determine t...