We give a fresh look into score normalization for merging result-lists, isolating the problem from other components. We focus on three of the simplest, practical, and widelyused l...
The performance of many supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms is very sensitive to the choice of an appropriate distance metric. Previous work in metric learning and ada...
We propose an efficient dialogue management for an information navigation system based on a document knowledge base with a spoken dialogue interface. In order to perform robustly ...
In-place and merge-based index maintenance are the two main competing strategies for on-line index construction in dynamic information retrieval systems based on inverted lists. Mo...
For this year's web track, we concentrated on the entry page finding task. For the content-only runs, in both the ad-hoc task and the entry page finding task, we used an infor...