Query performance prediction is aimed at predicting the retrieval effectiveness that a query will achieve with respect to a particular ranking model. In this paper, we study quer...
For this year's web track, we concentrated on the entry page finding task. For the content-only runs, in both the ad-hoc task and the entry page finding task, we used an infor...
The complexity of modern products and design tools has made the exchange of design information more complex. It is widely recognised that the seamless capture, storage, and retriev...
Steven B. Shooter, Walid Keirouz, Simon Szykman, S...
We present a generative model for determining the information content of a message without analyzing the message content. Such a tool is useful for automated analysis of the vast ...
Yingjie Zhou, Malik Magdon-Ismail, William A. Wall...
This paper proposes a novel framework to index and retrieve audio content from broadcast database that contains both speech and music. In this framework, we model the acoustic eve...