1 The Decision Support Information Gathering System, Digs, uses influence diagrams to model user's decisions and to calculate the value of imperfect information for each avail...
Current hidden Markov acoustic modeling for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) relies on the availability of abundant labeled transcriptions. Given that speech...
Opinion mining has become recently a major research topic. A wide range of techniques have been proposed to enable opinion-oriented information seeking systems. However, little is...
This paper presents a novel formulation and approach to the minimal document set retrieval problem. Minimal Document Set Retrieval (MDSR) is a promising information retrieval task...
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...