Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
Most existing information retrieval (IR) systems do not take much advantage of natural language processing (NLP) techniques due to the complexity and limited observed effectivenes...
Recently the re-ranking algorithms have been quite popular for web search and data mining. However, one of the issues is that those algorithms treat the content and link informati...
As XML information proliferates on the Web, searching XML information via a search engine is crucial to the experience of both casual and experienced Web users. The returned XML fr...
We propose an improved spoken term detection approach that uses support vector machines trained with lattice context consistency. The basic idea is that the same term usually have...