In the last years Blog Search has been a new exciting task in Information Retrieval. The presence of user generated information with valuable opinions makes this field of huge in...
We investigate self-testing programs with relative error by allowing error terms proportional to the function to be computed. Until now, in numerical computation, error terms were ...
Information retrieval systems are frequently required to handle long queries. Simply using all terms in the query or relying on the underlying retrieval model to appropriately wei...
This paper introduces a method for regularization of HMM systems that avoids parameter overfitting caused by insufficient training data. Regularization is done by augmenting the E...
We present a simple and effective approach to complement search results for children's web queries with child-oriented multimedia results, such as coloring pages and music sh...