We propose a new statistical model, named Hierarchical Topic Trajectory Model (HTTM), for acquiring a dynamically changing topic model that represents the relationship between vid...
act Interpretation SILVIA CRAFA FRANCESCO RANZATO University of Padova, Italy We show how bisimulation equivalence and simulation preorder on probabilistic LTSs (PLTSs), namely the...
We reveal that the Okapi BM25 retrieval function tends to overly penalize very long documents. To address this problem, we present a simple yet effective extension of BM25, namel...
A sequence fn(q) is q-holonomic if it satisfies a nontrivial linear recurrence with coefficients polynomials in q and qn . Our main theorem states that q-holonomicity is preserve...
Computer science faculty must attract and retain students by offering innovative courses that spark student interest, yet still teach core, computer science concepts. These effort...
Mark W. Bailey, Clark L. Coleman, Jack W. Davidson