With the proliferation of extremely high-dimensional data, feature selection algorithms have become indispensable components of the learning process. Strangely, despite extensive ...
This paper investigates the pre-conditions for successful combination of document representations formed from structural markup for the task of known-item search. As this task is ...
Abstract. The notion of user preference in database modeling has recently received much attention in advanced applications, such as personalization of e-services, since it captures...
Maximal word functions occur in data retrieval applications and have connections with ranking problems, which in turn were rst investigated in relation to data compression 21 . By ...
There is a reservoir of knowledge in data from the TREC evaluations that analysis of precision and recall leaves untapped. This knowledge leads to better understanding of query ex...