Question Answering Systems (QAS) are receiving increasing attention from information systems researchers, particularly those in the information retrieval and natural language proc...
In this study, we describe our system at the Intellectual Property track of the 2009 CrossLanguage Evaluation Forum campaign (CLEF-IP). The CLEF-IP track addressed prior art searc...
Data fusion has been investigated by many researchers in the information retrieval community and has become an effective technique for improving retrieval effectiveness. In this p...
In this paper, the task of text segmentation is approached from a topic modeling perspective. We investigate the use of latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic model to segment a ...
— In this paper, a new statistical model is proposed for modeling the nature images in the transform domain. We demonstrate that the von Mises distribution (VM) fits accurately ...