... differ-ent retrieval strategies. Experimental out-comes confirm that our hypotheses hold inthe context ofInformation Retrieval. 1 IntroductionThe task of an InformationRetrieval (IR) systemis to ... weight-ing schemes to match the query terms to the docu-ment keywords, in order to assess our hypothesesacross a range ofretrieval techniques. We asso-ciate improvement ofretrieval performance ... assumed to becontent-rich. In the context of the bag -of- wordsapproach to IR investigated here, the grammaticalwell-formedness of the query is thus not an issue to be considered.In order to test...
... equity, seeing customer as a means of profit and cash flow. They converted customer’s view of brand performance and customer’s awareness into numerical indicators.Conclusively, one of the most important ... our sample profile and that of both fast food restaurant profiles gives us a reasonable ground to conclude that our sample profile is a representative of the actual customer profile of both fast ... of color dressed in the Swedish traditional custom. Max offers a wide range of services to customers. The possibility to compose their meals and choose from several different alternatives to...
... loan officer. These data thus provide an ideal opportunity to investigate the sources of value of relationships from being able to collect more information on a customer. Our first set of ... information used by banks. There are a number of important open questions for future research. Are there other sources of unobservable private information that loan officers incorporate into ... sources of value of relationships. We find that relationships between banks and retail customers prior to a loan application significantly reduce the default rates of loans given to these customers....
... InformationRetrieval weighting schemes for sentiment analysisGeorgios PaltoglouUniversity of WolverhamptonWolverhampton, United Kingdomg.paltoglou@wlv.ac.ukMike ThelwallUniversity of WolverhamptonWolverhampton, ... variantsThe SMART retrieval system by Salton (1971) isa retrieval system based on the vector space model(Salton and McGill, 1986). Salton and Buckley(1987) provide a number of variants of the tf.idfweighting ... probabilisticmodel for informationretrieval and is one of themost popular and effective algorithms used in in-formation retrieval. For ease of reference, we in-corporate the BM25 tf and idf factors into theSMART...
... of Opinionated InformationRetrieval which is planned to be a module in a Cross-Language Opinion Extrac-tion system (CLOE). The main goal of this system is to provide access to opinionated information ... architecture of the CLOE system would be to implement the pro-cessing as a pipeline consisting, first, of using IR to retrieve certain articles relevant to the topic followedby second stage of classifying ... “positive” part.4.1 Experiment 1A corpus of E-Bay4customers’ reviews of productsand services was used as a test corpus. The totalnumber of reviews is 128, of which 37 are nega-tive (average length...
... exploitedin order to re-score the set of translation candidatesrelated to the source terms.Sequences of all possible combinations are con-structed between elements of sets of highly rankedtranslation ... alist of all possible phrases ranked in a form of hier-archy on the basis of word ranks associated to eachtranslation alternative. Selection of a phrase willmodify the ranked list of phrases ... alternatives. Each sequence is sent to apopular Web portal (here, Google) to discover howoften the combination of translation alternatives ap-pears. Number of retrieved WWW pages in whichthe...
... word. This is to control for conceptual units, as opposed to conceptual relations. 5. Modify original definition of adjacency, which counted stop-list words, to one which ignores stop- list ... stop- list words. This is to correct for the distortion caused by the distribution of function words in the recognition of multi-word concepts. Figure 4. Modifications to Text Analysis Program ... results co~ared to the evaluations of the original analysis and to one another. From the compar- isons can be determined: the extent to which discourse theory can be translated into these terms;...
... Effect of 0.2% Triton X-100 on specific inhibitory activity of PAI-1 at 37 8C. The specific inhibitory activity of each variant isgiven as a fraction of the specific inhibitory activity of the same variantin ... is S/S/H. The composition S/S/Q is identical to that of alaserpin, S/G/H is identical to that of CP-9, A/G/H is identical to that of heparin cofactor II, while the S/A/S composition is present ... absence of a slight excess of vitronectin over PAI-1 [30]. A twofolddilution series of PAI-1, with or without vitronectin, wasmade immediately after refolding, to avoid loss of activitydue to fast...
... the use of stemmersand morphological analysis to the use of thesauri(such as WordNet; see Fellbaum, 1998; Voorhees,1998) to pad a query with synonyms, to the use of statistical analysis to identify ... the tools to conducttheir own explorations of language. The morewildcards a query contains, the more degrees of freedom it offers to the explorer. Thus, the query“?scientist ‘s ?laboratory” ... Retrieval: A Robust Hybrid ofInformationRetrieval and Linguistic CreativityTony VealeSchool of Computer Science and Informatics,University College Dublin,Belfield, Dublin D4, Ireland.Tony.Veale@UCD.ieAbstractInformation...
... conception of “distillation”in the current DARPA GALE program. All thesetrends point to same problem: how do we buildadvanced information systems to address complex information needs?The value of ... component of many ques-tion answering strategies, it is important to understand the impact of different term-based techniques. Within a framework of sentence retrieval, we examine three fac-tors ... capabilities, fac-toid question answering systems are able to pin-point the exact span of text that directly satisfiesan information need.Nevertheless, IR engines remain integral com-ponents of question...
... Languages: A Dictionary-Based Ap-proach to Multilingual Information Retrieval. In Proc. of the 19th Annual ACM Conference on Re- search and Development in InformationRetrieval (SIGIR-1996), pages 49-57. ... variation of translation qual-ity and the variation ofretrieval effectiveness to analyze the relationship between MT perform-ance and CLIR performance. 4.1 Degradation of MT System In this research, ... results in 39.41% reduction in retrieval effectiveness. This indicates that retrieval effectiveness is more sen-sitive to the size of the dictionary than to the size of the rule base for title...
... loan officer. These data thus provide an ideal opportunity to investigate the sources of value of relationships from being able to collect more information on a customer. Our first set of ... thus provide value to banks in screening, but they also provide value beyond this. To investigate further the source of value of relationships, we make use of the detailed information about ... percentage of months with a negative balance during the last 6 months, the usage of the credit limit, the percentage of months in excess of the credit limit, sum of account credits of the last...
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