Increasingly large text datasets and the high dimensionality associated with natural language create a great challenge in text mining. In this research, a systematic study is cond...
M. Mahdi Shafiei, Singer Wang, Roger Zhang, Evange...
Digital storage of personal music collections and cloud-based music services (e.g. Pandora, Spotify) have fundamentally changed how music is consumed. In particular, automatically...
Shuo Chen, Josh L. Moore, Douglas Turnbull, Thorst...
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) via query-expansion has been proven to be effective in many information retrieval (IR) tasks. In most existing work, the top-ranked documents from...
Search engines that support structured documents typically support structure created by the author (e.g., title, section), and may also support structure added by an annotation pr...
In the KL divergence framework, the extended language modeling approach has a critical problem estimating a query model, which is the probabilistic model that encodes user’s inf...