Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...
This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...
This Chapter presents the PASCAL1 Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty Challenge, introduces the contributed Chapters by the participants who obtained outstanding results, and provide...
Many museum and library archives are digitizing their large collections of handwritten historical manuscripts to enable public access to them. These collections are only available...
Personal ontology construction is the task of sorting through relevant materials, identifying the main topics and concepts, and organizing them to suit personal needs. Automatic c...