In this paper we redefine and generalize the classic k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) voting rule in a Bayesian maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) framework. Therefore, annotated examples are u...
Paolo Piro, Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen, Michel Ba...
We propose a novel objective function for discriminatively tuning log-linear machine translation models. Our objective explicitly optimizes the BLEU score of expected n-gram count...
A query independent feature, relating perhaps to document content, linkage or usage, can be transformed into a static, per-document relevance weight for use in ranking. The challe...
Nick Craswell, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza...
Hardware manufacturers are increasingly outsourcing their IC fabrication work overseas due to much lower costs. This poses a significant security risk for ICs used for critical m...
Since the deployment of real-time sensitive applications in the Internet, the research community has been struggling to leverage the IP best-effort networks for providing QoS assu...
Reinaldo de Barros Correia, Luiz F. Rust da Costa ...