While we expect to discover knowledge in the texts available on the Web, such discovery usually requires many complex analysis steps, most of which require different text handling...
We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
Abstract. Too much information kills information. This common statement applies to huge databases, where state of the art search engines may retrieve hundreds of very similar docum...
Yann Landrin-Schweitzer, Pierre Collet, Evelyne Lu...
Information retrieval methods are frequently used for indexing and retrieving spoken documents, and more recently have been proposed for voice-search amongst a pre-defined set of ...
Geoffrey Zweig, Patrick Nguyen, Jasha Droppo, Alex...
The goal of collaborative filtering is to make recommendations for a test user by utilizing the rating information of users who share interests similar to the test user. Because r...