In this paper, we report our experiments in the TREC 2003 Genomics Track and the Robust Track. A common theme that we explored is the robustness of a basic language modeling retri...
Background: Forward-time simulations have unique advantages in power and flexibility for the simulation of genetic samples of complex human diseases because they can closely mimic...
Electronic information display systems are widely used in public places. The increase in use of light-emitting diodes (LED) display arouses our interest in the effective methods of...
Decision analytic methods are now used frequently to help articulate and structure debate and deliberations among citizens and stakeholders in societal decisions. Methods vary, bu...
Recent work on language models for information retrieval has shown that smoothing language models is crucial for achieving good retrieval performance. Many different effective smo...