We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
Genomic IR, characterized by its highly specific information need, severe synonym and polysemy problem, long term name and rapid growing literature size, is challenging IR communit...
In order to reduce human efforts, there has been increasing interest in applying active learning for training text classifiers. This paper describes a straightforward active learni...
Zhao Xu, Kai Yu, Volker Tresp, Xiaowei Xu, Jizhi W...
This paper describes the participation of DAEDALUS team at the WebPS-3 Task 1, regarding Web People Search. The focus of our research is to evaluate and compare the computational r...
Abstract. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients are a wellpracticed quantification of linear dependence seen across many fields. When calculating a sample-based correlati...
Taylor Phillips, Chris GauthierDickey, Ramki Thuri...