Abstract. In this paper we introduce a novel approach for query performance prediction based on ranking list scores dispersion. Starting from the hypothesis that different score d...
We propose a method to evaluate queries using a last-resort semantic cache in a distributed Web search engine. The cache stores a group of frequent queries and for each of these qu...
Microsoft has proposed an identity metasystem to standardize identity services and the principles behind them. A location metasystem can support interoperation between location se...
This paper deals with overlapping clustering, a trade off between crisp and fuzzy clustering. It has been motivated by recent applications in various domains such as information r...
Abstract. This paper proposes a hierarchical model to parse both English and Chinese sentences. This is done by iteratively constructing simple constituents first, so that complex...