—Deploying a generalized, multi-functional mechanism that produces good results for personalizing summarized and categorized news articles, seems to be a panacea for most of the ...
Abstract. This paper derives two new information theoretic linear regression criteria based on the minimum message length principle. Both criteria are invariant to full rank affine...
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a novel approach for query performance prediction based on ranking list scores dispersion. Starting from the hypothesis that different score d...
We propose a method to evaluate queries using a last-resort semantic cache in a distributed Web search engine. The cache stores a group of frequent queries and for each of these qu...
Microsoft has proposed an identity metasystem to standardize identity services and the principles behind them. A location metasystem can support interoperation between location se...