We review the history of modeling score distributions, focusing on the mixture of normal-exponential by investigating the theoretical as well as the empirical evidence supporting i...
This paper presents a new discriminative model for information retrieval (IR), referred to as linear discriminant model (LDM), which provides a flexible framework to incorporate a...
The recent enormous increase in the use of networked information access and on-line databases has led to more databases being available in languages other than English. The Center...
Search algorithms incorporating some form of topic model have a long history in information retrieval. For example, cluster-based retrieval has been studied since the 60s and has ...
Abstract. In this paper we propose an approach to deal with the ChineseEnglish cross-language image retrieval problem. Text-based image retrieval and query translation methods were...