Recently, Multiple Background Models (M-BMs) [1, 2] have been shown to be useful in speaker verification, where the M-BMs are formed based on different Vocal Tract Lengths (VTLs)...
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...
Background: Human genetic variations primarily result from single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that occur approximately every 1000 bases in the overall human population. The no...
Jian Tian, Ningfeng Wu, Xuexia Guo, Jun Guo, Juhua...
Much of the information on the Web is found in articles from online news outlets, magazines, encyclopedias, review collections, and other sources. However, extracting this content...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...