The modeling of high level semantic events from low level sensor signals is important in order to understand distributed phenomena. For such content-modeling purposes, transformat...
User generated content is characterized by short, noisy documents, with many spelling errors and unexpected language usage. To bridge the vocabulary gap between the user's in...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
Understanding query reformulation patterns is a key step towards next generation web search engines: it can help improving users’ web-search experience by predicting their inten...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...
In three-tiered web applications, some form of admission control is required to ensure that throughput and response times are not significantly harmed during periods of heavy load....
: We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdam's ILPS group in the relevance feedback track at TREC 2008. We introduce a new model which incorporates informati...
Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, Jiyin He, Maarten de ...