We present two simple but effective smoothing techniqes for the standard language model (LM) approach to information retrieval [12]. First, we extend the unigram Dirichlet smoothi...
In this paper we will describe Berkeley's approach to the Domain Specific (DS) track for CLEF 2008. Last year we used Entry Vocabulary Indexes and Thesaurus expansion approac...
As users enter web queries, real-time query expansion (RTQE) interfaces offer suggestions based on an index garnered from query logs. In selecting a suggestion, users can potentia...
This paper presents a time-domain jitter expansion technique for high-speed digital bit sequence jitter testing. While jitter expansion has been applied to phase noise measurement...
Background: There is a large amount of gene expression data that exists in the public domain. This data has been generated under a variety of experimental conditions. Unfortunatel...