Abstract. The ostensive model assumes that a user’s information need is dynamic and developing, thus, a recently accessed object can be seen as more indicative to the current inf...
Text classification in the medical domain is a real world problem with wide applicability. This paper investigates extensively the effect of text representation approaches on the p...
Fathi H. Saad, Beatriz de la Iglesia, Duncan G. Be...
We evaluate server selection methods in a Web environment, modeling a digital library which makes use of existing Web search servers rather than building its own index. The evalua...
Pseudo-relevance feedback has proven to be an effective strategy for improving retrieval accuracy in all retrieval models. However the performance of existing pseudo feedback meth...
We propose an entropy-based sensor selection heuristic for localization. Given 1) a prior probability distribution of the target location, and 2) the locations and the sensing mod...
Hanbiao Wang, Kung Yao, Gregory J. Pottie, Deborah...