Query expansion terms are often used to enhance original query formulations in document retrieval. Such terms are usually selected from the entire documents or from windows or pas...
We address the task of separating personal from non-personal blogs, and report on a set of baseline experiments where we compare the performance on a small set of features across ...
Coping with Information Overload is a major challenge of the 21st century. Huge volumes and varieties of multilingual data must be processed to extract salient information. Previo...
Allen L. Gorin, Carey E. Priebe, John Grothendieck
— The present paper is devoted to the exploration of the properties of the simple spiking neuron model and quantification of the information transfer rate, which the separate neu...
We hypothesized that language modeling retrieval would improve if we reduced the need for document smoothing to provide an inverse document frequency (IDF) like effect. We create...