Spatio-temporal databases store information about the positions of individual objects over time. In many applications however, such as traffic supervision or mobile communication ...
Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao, Jun Zhang, Nikos Mam...
This paper addresses the issue of devising a new document prior for the language modeling (LM) approach for Information Retrieval. The prior is based on term statistics, derived in...
Abstract. Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are increasingly common in clinical medicine for prescribing a set of rules that a physician should follow. Recent interest is in accu...
An important challenge for biomedical information retrieval (IR) is dealing with the complex, inconsistent and ambiguous biomedical terminology. Frequently, a concept-based repres...
Dolf Trieschnigg, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jo...
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 ...