This paper describes a discussion-bot that provides answers to students’ discussion board questions in an unobtrusive and humanlike way. Using information retrieval and natural ...
Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy
Abstract. Anyone offering content in a digital library is naturally interested in assessing its performance: how well does my system meet the users' information needs? Standar...
In this paper, we study the problem of Web forum crawling. Web forum has now become an important data source of many Web applications; while forum crawling is still a challenging ...
Yida Wang, Jiang-Ming Yang, Wei Lai, Rui Cai, Lei ...
Complex network analysis is a growing research area in a wide variety of domains and has recently become closely associated with data, text and web mining. One of the most active ...
Cristian Klen dos Santos, Alexandre Evsukoff, Beat...
In this paper, we describe a methodology to estimate the geographic coverage of the web without the need for secondary knowledge or complex geo-tagging. This is achieved by random...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Ross S. Purves, Floria...