As web information systems tend to mature it has become increasingly important to have an engineered design of such systems. Hera is a design methodology that supports the develop...
Flavius Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben, Peter Barna, ...
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
The paper is concerned with applying learning to rank to document retrieval. Ranking SVM is a typical method of learning to rank. We point out that there are two factors one must ...
Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Yalou Hua...
This article addresses a question regarding relevant information in a social media such as a wiki that can contain huge amount of text, written in slang or in natural language, wi...
Carlos Miguel Tobar, Alessandro Santos Germer, Jua...
Comparing and contrasting is an important strategy people employ to understand new situations and create solutions for new problems. Similar events can provide hints for problem s...