Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
In participating in this CLEF evaluation campaign, our first objective is to propose and evaluate various indexing and search strategies for the Russian language, in order to obta...
Subspace learning techniques are widespread in pattern recognition research. They include Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Locality Preserving Projection (LPP), etc. These tech...
This paper proposes two methods of query expansion for retrieving paraphrase candidates indexed by Kanzi (Chinese) characters. The idea is to calculate similarity between Kanzi ch...
We carry out a comprehensive study of long-range interactions on a large data set of non-homologous proteins. Our study reveals that the long-range interactions between amino acid...