To ameliorate the need to spend significant programmer time modifying parallel programs to achieve highperformance, while maintaining compact, comprehensible source codes, this pa...
Higher quality synthesized speech is required for widespread use of text-to-speech (TTS) technology, and prosodic pattern is the key feature that makes synthetic speech sound unna...
We analyse the kinematics of probabilistic term weights at retrieval time for di erent Information Retrieval models. We present four models based on di erent notions of probabilis...
Search engine logs are an emerging new type of data that offers interesting opportunities for data mining. Existing work on mining such data has mostly attempted to discover knowl...
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...