Portable, reusable test collections are a vital part of research and development in information retrieval. Reusability is difficult to assess, however. The standard approach— si...
Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu...
Building a bilingual dictionary for transfer in a machine translation system is conventionally done by hand and is very time-consuming. In order to overcome this bottleneck, we pr...
In several information retrieval (IR) systems there is a possibility for user feedback. Many machine learning methods have been proposed that learn from the feedback information in...
This paper describes a digital theater installation called Buzz. Buzz consists of virtual actors who express the collective voice generated by weblogs (blogs). These actors find ...
Sara Owsley, Kristian J. Hammond, David A. Shamma,...
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...