Identification of those genes that might anticipate the clinical behavior of different types of cancers is challenging due to availability of a smaller number of patient samples...
Selective sampling is a form of active learning which can reduce the cost of training by only drawing informative data points into the training set. This selected training set is ...
Zhenyu Lu, Anand I. Rughani, Bruce I. Tranmer, Jos...
Previous research on cluster-based retrieval has been inconclusive as to whether it does bring improved retrieval effectiveness over document-based retrieval. Recent developments ...
We propose a method to predict a user’s favourite locations in a city, based on his Flickr geotags in other cities. We define a similarity between the geotag distributions of t...
Maarten Clements, Pavel Serdyukov, Arjen P. de Vri...
We present a novel passage-based approach to re-ranking documents in an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. While most work on passage-based document...