A formal treatment of typed feature structures (TFSs) is developed to augment TFSs, so that negative descriptions of them can be treated. Negative descriptions of TFSs can make li...
We examine the notion of "unrelatedness" in a probabilistic framework. Three formulations are presented. In the first formulation, two variables a and b are totally inde...
: This paper presents the results of our team in the Genomics and Blog tracks in TREC 2007. We used the language model implementation provided by Indri for both tracks. For the BLO...
Miguel E. Ruiz, Ying Sun, Jianqiang Wang, Hongfang...
Ranking blog posts that express opinions regarding a given topic should serve a critical function in helping users. We explored a couple of methods for opinion retrieval in the fr...
This is the second year for the participation of Center for Studies of Information Resources (CSIR) in the TREC Expert Search Task. Rather than using the candidate profile based ap...