Discriminative methods have shown significant improvements over traditional generative methods in many machine learning applications, but there has been difficulty in extending th...
The amount of readily available on-line text has reached hundreds of billions of words and continues to grow. Yet for most core natural language tasks, algorithms continue to be o...
In this paper we describe an Information Retrieval problem called collection fusion. The collection fusion problem is to maximize the number of relevant natural language documents...
Geoffrey G. Towell, Ellen M. Voorhees, Narendra Ku...
Human intelligence consists largely of the ability to recognize and exploit structural systematicity in the world, relating our senses simultaneously to each other and to our cogni...
We used the YFILTER filtering system for experiments on updating profiles and setting thresholds. We developed a new method of using language models for updating profiles that is ...