As web search providers seek to improve both relevance and response times, they are challenged by the ever-increasing tax of automated search query traffic. Third party systems in...
Gregory Buehrer, Jack W. Stokes, Kumar Chellapilla
In this paper we will briefly describe the approaches taken by the Berkeley Cheshire Group for the GikiCLEF task of the QA track. Because the task was intended to model some aspec...
Many large-scale Web applications that require ranked top-k retrieval are implemented using inverted indices. An inverted index represents a sparse term-document matrix, where non...
George Beskales, Marcus Fontoura, Maxim Gurevich, ...
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
The Exploratorium, an interactive hand-on science museum, is developing an online collection of science learning and teaching resources to better serve educators’ needs for peda...