In this paper we study the utility of discourse structure for spoken dialogue performance modeling. We experiment with various ways of exploiting the discourse structure: in isola...
This work presents a model of a distributed database system which provides the framework to study the performance of timestamp ordering concurrency control. We exhibit an analytic...
This papers studies a special “small” information retrieval problem where user satisfaction only depends on the ordering of documents. We look for a retrieval performance meas...
We consider a digital library distributed in a tightly coupled environment. The library is indexed by inverted files and the vector space model is used as ranking strategy. Using ...
This study emphasizes the importance of using appropriate measures in particular text classification settings. We focus on methods that evaluate how well a classifier performs. The...