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SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler
WSC
2007
15 years 2 months ago
Expecting the unexpected: representing, reasoning about, and assessing construction project contingencies
Planning, scheduling and effective management of contingencies are crucial for the successful management of construction projects. In this paper we explore a mathematical represen...
G. Ryan Anderson, Nilufer Onder, Amlan Mukherjee
ICSE
2001
IEEE-ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Improving Software Inspections by Using Reading Techniques
Reading techniques are step-by-step procedures that guide individual inspectors while they uncover defects in a software artifact. Reading techniques provide a systematic and well...
Forrest Shull, Ioana Rus, Victor R. Basili
DAWAK
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Using an Interest Ontology for Improved Support in Rule Mining
Abstract. This paper describes the use of a concept hierarchy for improving the results of association rule mining. Given a large set of tuples with demographic information and per...
Xiaoming Chen, Xuan Zhou, Richard B. Scherl, James...
ESWS
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Nonmonotonic Ontological and Rule-Based Reasoning with Extended Conceptual Logic Programs
We present extended conceptual logic programs (ECLPs), for which reasoning is decidable and, moreover, can be reduced to finite answer set programming. ECLPs are useful to reason ...
Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir