In this paper we describe a model of social and collaborative search based on the use of tags. First we will introduce the issues that drove us to the definition of this model, an...
We present a novel language-model-based approach to reranking an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. Our model integrates whole-document information ...
The Extended Baum-Welch (EBW) Transformations is one of a variety of techniques to estimate parameters of Gaussian mixture models. In this paper, we provide a theoretical framewor...
Dimitri Kanevsky, Tara N. Sainath, Bhuvana Ramabha...
In sensor networks, privacy can be addressed in different levels of the network stack and at different points of the information flow. This paper presents an application level sche...
Model Driven Data Integration is a data integration approach that proactively incorporates and utilizes metadata across the data integration process. By decoupling data and metada...
Hyeonsook Kim, Ying Zhang, Samia Oussena, Tony Cla...