In this paper we give a brief overview of the Webis group’s participation in the TREC 2011 Sessions track with an extended version of our last year’s approach [HSV10]. The basic idea can be described as a conservative query expansion based on terms used in previous queries or terms contained in clicked snippets. Furthermore, a query’s result set is reduced by removing documents shown for previo...

We report our system and experiments for the realtime Adhoc task in the 2011 MicroBlog track. Our goal is to develop effective technique to retrieve relevant tweets that have been posted recently. In particular, we propose a time-­sensitive term weighting strategy that can favor tweets in hot-­discussed time and a document length related weighting method that can favor long tweets which are mor...

For eciency and ease of implementation, many compilers implicitly impose an ``inlining policy'' to restrict the conditions under which a procedure may be inlined. An inlining technique consists of an inlining policy and a strategy for choosing a sequence of inlining operations that is consistent with the policy. The e€ectiveness of an inlining technique is a€ected by the restrictiveness of the...

In this study, differential transform method (DTM) is applied to fuzzy integro-differential equation. The concept of generalized Hdifferentiability is used. If the equation has a solution in terms of the series expansion of known functions; this powerful method catches the exact solution. Some numerical examples are also given to illustrate the superiority of the method. All rights reserved.

The univariate theorem deals with the case of simple poles as well as with the case t multiple poles. The former means that we have information on the denominator of th meromorphic function while the latter means that we also have information on the derivative ef that denominator. Up to now w-e o+ ,...; prtivcd a multivariate analogon of the univariate d Montessus dc Baiiore theorem for the cas...

We develop an expression for the minimum extra bandwidth needed for a frequency-division multiple-access (FDMA) system to outperform its code-division (CDMA) counterpart uniformly (that is, for all rate n-tuples) in a Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC). For equalpower sources, the behavior of this factor is as an iterated logarithm of the number of users; hence it increases slowly yet is un...

The validity of a series expansion proposed previously @T. H. Jensen and M. S. Chu, Phys. Fluids 27, 2881 ~1984!# for describing general Taylor configurations of magnetized plasmas has been reexamined because an apparent paradox was realized. From analyses of simple cases which can be dealt with mostly analytically, it is concluded that the paradox is a Gibbs phenomenon, and that the series exp...

We derive a series expansion for the multiparameter fractional Brownian motion. The derived expansion is proven to be rate optimal .

This paper details Cengage Learning’s submissions for this year’s TREC medical track. The techniques we used fall roughly into two categories: information extraction and query expansion. From both the queries and the medical reports, we extracted limiting attributes, such as age, race, and gender, and labeled terms appearing in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). We also used three diff...