This Chapter presents the PASCAL1 Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty Challenge, introduces the contributed Chapters by the participants who obtained outstanding results, and provide...
Abstract. In this report, we describe our studies with cross language and interactive image retrieval in ImageCLEF 2004. Typical cross language retrieval requires special linguisti...
Vineet Bansal, Chen Zhang, Joyce Y. Chai, Rong Jin
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
Abstract. In many organizations, it is common to control access to confidential information based on the need-to-know principle; The requests for access are authorized only if the ...