York University participated in HARD and Genomics tracks this year. For both tracks, we used Okapi BSS (basic search system) as the basis. Our experiments mainly focused on exploi...
Xiangji Huang, Yan Rui Huang, Ming Zhong, Miao Wen
There are many applications in which it is desirable to order rather than classify instances. Here we consider the problem of learning how to order, given feedback in the form of ...
William W. Cohen, Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer
This paper introduced the four tracks that WIM-Lab Fudan University had taken part in at TREC 2007. For spam track, a multi-centre model was proposed considering the characteristi...
Jun Xu, Jing Yao, Jiaqian Zheng, Qi Sun, Junyu Niu
In the context of information retrieval, traditional collection selection algorithms have been widely studied. These algorithms utilize language models, a representation of the co...
Gary A. Monroe, James C. French, Allison L. Powell
Recently, many new applications, such as sensor data monitoring and mobile device tracking, raise up the issue of uncertain data management. Compared to "certain" data, ...