Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...
Information retrieval techniques have to face both the growing amount of data to be processed and the "natural" distribution of these data over the network. Hence, we in...
Adapting to rank address the the problem of insufficient domainspecific labeled training data in learning to rank. However, the initial study shows that adaptation is not always...
Keke Chen, Jing Bai, Srihari Reddy, Belle L. Tseng
This paper attacks a Japanese syllable-substitution cipher. We use a probabilistic, noisy-channel framework, exploiting various Japanese language models to drive the decipherment. ...
Information Retrieval (IR) systems try to identify documents relevant to user queries, which are representations of user information needs. Interaction, context, and document struc...