Abstract. Implicit acquisition of user preferences makes log-based collaborative filtering favorable in practice to accomplish recommendations. In this paper, we follow a formal ap...
Jun Wang, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. Reinders
Kneser-Ney (1995) smoothing and its variants are generally recognized as having the best perplexity of any known method for estimating N-gram language models. Kneser-Ney smoothing...
In this work, the problem of the estimation of parameters in case of mixtures of models composed by the sum of multiple Gaussians is considered. It will be shown how this estimati...
Efficient evaluation of design choices, in terms of selection of algorithms to be implemented as hardware or software, and finding an optimal hw/sw design mix is an important re...
A query speller is crucial to search engine in improving web search relevance. This paper describes novel methods for use of distributional similarity estimated from query logs in...