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Approximating true relevance model in relevance feedback.
Relevance is an essential concept in information retrieval (IR) and relevance estimation is a fundamental IR task. It involves not only document relevance estimation, but also estimation of user's information need. Relevance-based language model aims to estimate a relevance model (i.e., a relevant …
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Relevance of ambiguity
Many times it is not an answer towards which we struggle but instead the formulation of the question. The answer then becomes the lifelong quest. This thesis I believe to be the formulation of that question and my architectural career the pursuit of the answer.
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Improving document representation by accumulating relevance feedback : the relevance feedback accumulation (RFA) algorithm
… representation improvement method called the Relevance Feedback Accumulation (RFA) algorithm is presented. The algorithm provides a mechanism to continuously accumulate relevance assessments over time and across users. It also provides a document representation modification function, or …
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Relevance learning for redundant features
… the differentiation between different types of relevance. Furthermore, we offer a new heuristic to automatically group related features together, and we analyse the definition of relevance in the context of privileged information, where data is only available in training.<br /><br /> We also …
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The empirical relevance of metaphysics
Are metaphysical debates relevant to ordinary empirical inquiry? This dissertation collects a series of papers which answers in the affirmative. The first part of the dissertation is concerned with inductive inference. I argue that we shouldn't expect the world to be amenable to induction if …
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Some Mixing Flows of Industrial Relevance
In this thesis, theoretical and experimental investigation is undertaken into the steady mixing flows generated by rotating cylindrical and disc stirrers in Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. No mixing study is carried out.<br/><br/>In Chapter 1, we briefly discuss the importance of the low speed …
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Exploration Of Relevance Effects In Reasoning
… on distributed theories of memory, which models relevance effects of the problem materials by way of a simple algorithm. The model is seen to parsimoniously predict previous general response patterns found using the two reasoning tasks and makes unusual predictions concerning the size of the …
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The Heinrich Model: Determining Contemporary Relevance
<p>For as long as his work has been at the core of the safety profession, Herbert William Heinrich has been a staple of debate. His 1931 work Industrial Accident Prevention: A Scientific Approach has sparked worldwide debate on the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of his safety theories, as well as …
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Objectivity and Relevance in Accounting Evidence
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T22:10:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0004414.pdf: 19669729 bytes, checksum: a85344ac5612ba7edec408dd7f7be7ae (MD5) Previous issue date: 1952
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Evaluating Others’ Relevance: Dimensions, Levels, and Interdependence
… gender, and attractiveness—to assess others’ relevance to their own goals. The resulting appraisals of others’ opportunity and threat shape social judgments and behavior. My thesis accomplishes three broad aims. With Studies 1 and 2, I demonstrate that appraisals of who threatens and who …
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The (ir)relevance of truth to rationality
It is possible to act for a reason. We do it all the time. You might have brought her medicine for the reason that she is ill. He might go to the store to get milk. Edmund might skate in the middle of the pond because the ice in the middle of the pond is thin. What must be true of us, and of the …
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The Contemporary Relevance of Kant’s Transcendental Psychology
… this thesis is to demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Kant’s transcendental psychology against the orthodoxy of the dominant analytic school of philosophy, in an aim to salvage it from criticisms that resulted in the widespread view that Kant had little to say about the mind that was …
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Scalar implicatures in children: alternatives and relevance
… the goal of conversation (Experiment 2) and that relevance does not simply mediate, but in fact drives accessibility of the alternatives (Experiment 3). We discuss the implications of these findings for pragmatic inference and the study of pragmatic development in general.
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Intertextuality and translation : a relevance-theoretic approach
… it is shown how Sperber and Wilson's (1986/1995) relevancetheoreticapproach to cognition and communication provides answers to theproblems raised in Part I. A relevance-theoretic analysis of intertextuality isdeveloped, based on the notions of metarepresentation and interpretive use. Itis shown …
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The Relevance Problem in Philosophy of Education
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T21:24:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6801726.pdf: 19237950 bytes, checksum: 0100d0ed2ed76423bccf7514c49d0079 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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Communication, Relevance, and Power in Montaigne's 'Essais'
… of human interchange, the thesis draws on relevance theory, a cognitively-inflected framework of utterance interpretation in the field of pragmatics. Relevance theory holds that communicative acts provide only sparse evidence of the communicator’s intended meaning. The addressee must engage …
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