In recent years, a number of projects have turned to Wikipedia to establish large-scale taxonomies that describe orders of magnitude more entities than traditional manually built ...
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
MDIRS is methodology to define the actors and the steps to build efficiently information retrieval (IR) System. MDRIS main mission is to analyze, develop and evaluate mechanisms s...
A longitudinal design was employed to collect three waves of survey data over a 14 month period from 2790 online gamers. Respondents were asked questions about their gaming activi...
In many applications, a reduction of the amount of the original data or a representation of the original data by a small set of variables is often required. Among many techniques, ...