Current approaches for answering queries with imprecise constraints require users to provide distance metrics and importance measures for attributes of interest. In this paper we ...
Models of language learning play a central role in a wide range of applications: from psycholinguistic theories of how people acquire new word knowledge, to information systems th...
With more and more commercial activities moving onto the Internet, people tend to purchase what they need through Internet or conduct some online research before the actual transac...
In the business world, analyzing and dealing with risk permeates all decisions and actions. However, to date, risk identification, the first step in the risk management cycle, has...
Most queries in web search are ambiguous and multifaceted. Identifying the major senses and facets of queries from search log data, referred to as query subtopic mining in this pa...
Yunhua Hu, Ya-nan Qian, Hang Li, Daxin Jiang, Jian...