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Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008

As online information grows dramatically, search engines such as Google are playing a more and more important role in our lives. Critical to all search engines is the problem of designing an effective retrieval model that can rank documents accurately for a given query. This has been a central research problem in information retrieval for several...

Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl

Apress, 2003

Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl is written with the goal of super-charging your SQL Server administration skills with Perl scripting, taking you to the next level of SQL Server administration. Through a broad range of scenarios, this book shows you how to write Perl scripts (often in combination with T-SQL scripting)...

An Introduction to Programming Using Visual Basic 2010, 8th Edition

Prentice Hall, 2010

An Introduction to Programming Using Visual Basic 2010, Eighth Edition, — consistently praised by both students and instructors — is designed for students with no prior computer programming experience. Now updated for Visual Basic 2010, Schneider focuses on teaching problem-solving skills and sustainable...

Beginning F#

Apress, 2009

Functional programming is perhaps the next big wave in application development. As experienced developers know, functional programming makes its mark by allowing application builders to develop solutions to complicated programming situations cleanly and efficiently. A rich history of functional languages, including Erlang and OCaml, leads the...

Pro Java 7 NIO.2 (Professional Apress)

Apress, 2011

The recommended entry point to start exploring the NIO.2 API, also known as “JSR 203: More New I/O

APIs for the Java Platform” (NIO.2), is the new abstract class java.nio.file.Path. This class is a milestone of NIO.2, and every application that involves I/O operations will exploit the powerful facilities of this...

Ultra-Wideband Communications: Fundamentals and Applications (Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies)

Prentice Hall, 2005

Ultra-wideband (UWB) radios are expected to play a revolutionary role in the future of wireless communications systems. The great interest in UWB communications was sparked by FCC rulings in February 2002 that authorized the unlicensed commercial deployment of UWB technology under a strict power control in 7500 MHz of spectrum. This...