Term-weighting schemes are vital to the performance of Information Retrieval models that use term frequency characteristics to determine the relevance of a document. The vector spa...
We propose new methods to exploit contemporaneous text, such as on-line news articles, to improve language models for automatic speech recognition and other natural language proce...
Abstract-- Classification hierarchies are trees where links codify the fact that a node lower in the hierarchy contains documents whose contents are more specific than those one le...
Research on relevance feedback (RFB) in information retrieval (IR) has given mixed results. Success in RFB seems to depend on the searcher's willingness to provide feedback a...
Programmers often write custom parsers for the command line input of their programs. They do so, in part, because they believe that both their program's parameterization and t...