Proactive Query Expansion for Streaming Data Using External Source

1 code implementation • 17 Jan 2022 • Farah Alshanik, Amy Apon, Yuheng Du, Alexander Herzog, Ilya Safro

Choosing which terms to add in order to improve the performance of the query expansion methods or to enhance the quality of the retrieved results is an important aspect of any information retrieval system.

Information Retrieval Retrieval +1

Accelerating Text Mining Using Domain-Specific Stop Word Lists

no code implementations • 18 Nov 2020 • Farah Alshanik, Amy Apon, Alexander Herzog, Ilya Safro, Justin Sybrandt

Eliminating domain-specific common words in a corpus reduces the dimensionality of the feature space, and improves the performance of text mining tasks.

Computational Efficiency Dimensionality Reduction +1

Vision-based Pedestrian Alert Safety System (PASS) for Signalized Intersections

no code implementations • 2 Jul 2019 • Mhafuzul Islam, Mizanur Rahman, Mashrur Chowdhury, Gurcan Comert, Eshaa Deepak Sood, Amy Apon

The contribution of this paper lies in the development of a system using a vision-based deep learning model that is able to generate personal safety messages (PSMs) in real-time (every 100 milliseconds).