In this short note we demonstrate the applicability of hyperlink downweighting by means of language model disagreement. The method filters out hyperlinks with no relevance to the ...
This paper focuses on a solution to better adapt ASR systems, whose language models (LM) are usually trained on topic-independent corpora, to new topics, in particular in the case...
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Support vector machines (SVMs) have been widely used in multimedia retrieval to learn a concept in order to find the best matches. In such a SVM active learning environment, the ...
Using content-specific models to guide information retrieval and extraction can provide richer interfaces to endusers for both understanding the context of news events and navigat...
Earl J. Wagner, Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum, Kennet...