We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
In this paper, we propose an information retrieval model called Latent Interest Semantic Map (LISM), which features retrieval composed of both Collaborative Filtering(CF) and Prob...
We study the problem of non-interactive correlation distillation (NICD). Suppose Alice and Bob each has a string, denoted by A = a0a1 · · · an−1 and B = b0b1 · · · bn−1,...
Word prediction can be used to enhance the communication rate of people with disabilities who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices. We use statistical meth...
In recent years, the language model Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), which clusters co-occurring words into topics, has been widely applied in the computer vision field. Howeve...