Partial cognates are pairs of words in two languages that have the same meaning in some, but not all contexts. Detecting the actual meaning of a partial cognate in context can be ...
In many design tasks it is difficult to explicitly define an objective function. This paper uses machine learning to derive an objective in a feature space based on selected examp...
Abstract. Machine learning ranking methods are increasingly applied to ranking tasks in information retrieval (IR). However ranking tasks in IR often differ from standard ranking t...
Abstract. This paper studies a risk minimization approach to estimate a transformation model from noisy observations. It is argued that transformation models are a natural candidat...
Vanya Van Belle, Kristiaan Pelckmans, Johan A. K. ...
Web search engines are composed of a large set of search nodes and a broker machine that feeds them with queries. A location cache keeps minimal information in the broker to regist...