In this paper we explore the use of parsimonious language models for web retrieval. These models are smaller thus more efficient than the standard language models and are therefor...
Empirical modeling of the score distributions associated with retrieved documents is an essential task for many retrieval applications. In this work, we propose modeling the releva...
A vector model based information retrieval of handwritten medical forms is presented in this paper. In order to improve the IR performance on the erroneous output of handwriting r...
Abstract. Web Services is an XML-based technology that has attracted significant attention for building distributed Internet services. There have also been significant efforts tryi...
This paper studies document ranking under uncertainty. It is tackled in a general situation where the relevance predictions of individual documents have uncertainty, and are depen...