Formal languages for probabilistic modeling enable re-use, modularity, and descriptive clarity, and can foster generic inference techniques. We introduce Church, a universal langu...
Noah Goodman, Vikash K. Mansinghka, Daniel M. Roy,...
Aggregated search refers to the integration of content from specialized corpora or verticals into web search results. Aggregation improves search when the user has vertical intent...
Any automated decision support software must tailor its actions or recommendations to the preferences of different users. Thus it requires some representation of user preferences ...
Abstract. In many classification problems, and in particular in medical domains, it is common to have an unbalanced class distribution. This pose problems to classifiers as they ...
Our participation in TREC 2003 aims to adapt the use of the DFR (Divergence From Randomness) models with Query Expansion (QE) to the robust track and the topic distillation task o...
Giambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Ro...