Aggregate ranking tasks are those where documents are not the final ranking outcome, but instead an intermediary component. For instance, in expert search, a ranking of candidate ...
Abstract. Relevance feedback, which uses the terms in relevant documents to enrich the user’s initial query, is an effective method for improving retrieval performance. An assoc...
Angluin showed that the class of regular languages could be learned from a Minimally Adequate Teacher (mat) providing membership and equivalence queries. Clark and Eyraud (2007) sh...
An active learner has a collection of data points, each with a label that is initially hidden but can be obtained at some cost. Without spending too much, it wishes to find a cla...
The NITE XML Toolkit (NXT) provides library support for working with multimodal language corpora. We describe work in progress to explore its potential for the AMI project by appl...