This paper proposes a word sense language model based method for information retrieval. This method, differing from most of traditional ones, combines word senses defined in a thes...
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...
In this paper, we consider the relationship between risksensitivity and information. Product estimators are introduced as a generalization of Maximum A Posteriori Probability (MAP...
Vahid Reza Ramezani, Steven I. Marcus, Michael C. ...
The protection of personal health information has become a live issue in a number of countries including the USA, Canada, Britain and Germany. The debate has shown that there is w...
Cooperation in information retrieval contexts can be used to share query results inside groups of individuals with common objectives, provided that all of them are aware of each ot...