In this paper, we propose a preference framework for information retrieval in which the user and the system administrator are enabled to express preference annotations on search ke...
The goal of the work described here is to limit the computation needed in unit selection Viterbi search for text-to-speech synthesis. The broader goal is to improve speech quality...
Discretization refers to splitting the range of continuous values into intervals so as to provide useful information about classes. This is usually done by minimizing a goodness m...
One of the most fundamental problems in web search is how to re-rank result web pages based on user logs. Most traditional models for re-ranking assume each query has a single int...
This paper describes new methods in pairing-based signature schemes for identifying the invalid digital signatures in a batch, after batch verification has failed. These methods ef...