Sparse representations over redundant dictionaries offer an efficient paradigm for signal representation. Recently block-sparsity has been put forward as a prior condition for so...
While test collection construction is a time-consuming and expensive process, the true cost is amortized by reusing the collection over hundreds or thousands of experiments. Some ...
Ben Carterette, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifov...
This paper proposes GBM (gravitation-based model), a physical model for information retrieval inspired by Newton’s theory of gravitation. A mapping is built in this model from c...
When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
Large knowledge bases consisting of entities and relationships between them have become vital sources of information for many applications. Most of these knowledge bases adopt the...