World Wide Web search engines typically return thousands of results to the users. To avoid users browsing through the whole list of results, search engines use ranking algorithms ...
Exploration and navigation in multimedia data hierarchies (e.g., photos, music) are frequent tasks on mobile devices. However, visualization and interaction are impoverished due t...
Dynamic Power Management (DPM) is a technique to reduce power consumption of electronic systems by selectively shutting down idle components. The quality of the shutdown control a...
Users enter queries that are short as well as long. The aim of this work is to evaluate techniques that can enable information retrieval (IR) systems to automatically adapt to per...
Abstract-- Speaker space based adaptation methods for automatic speech recognition have been shown to provide significant performance improvements for tasks where only a few second...