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CCGRID
2001
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
KelpIO: A Telescope-Ready Domain-Specific I/O Library for Irregular Block-Structured Applications
To ameliorate the need to spend significant programmer time modifying parallel programs to achieve highperformance, while maintaining compact, comprehensible source codes, this pa...
Bradley Broom, Robert J. Fowler, Ken Kennedy
KDD
2000
ACM
114views Data Mining» more  KDD 2000»
15 years 10 months ago
Learning Prosodic Patterns for Mandarin Speech Synthesis
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...
Yiqiang Chen, Wen Gao, Tingshao Zhu
SIGIR
1995
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Probability Kinematics in Information Retrieval
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...
Fabio Crestani, C. J. van Rijsbergen
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Mining term association patterns from search logs for effective query reformulation
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...
Xuanhui Wang, ChengXiang Zhai
CLEF
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
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...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...