We propose three heuristics to determine the country of origin of a person or institution via text-based IE from the Web. We evaluate all methods on a collection of music artists ...
Markus Schedl, Klaus Seyerlehner, Dominik Schnitze...
Abstract. It is well known that pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) improves the retrieval performance of Information Retrieval (IR) systems in general. However, a recent study by Cao ...
The demand for quickly delivering new applications is increasingly becoming a business imperative today. Application development is often done in an ad hoc manner, without standar...
Vikas Agarwal, Koustuv Dasgupta, Neeran M. Karnik,...
As the amount of Web information grows rapidly, search engines must be able to retrieve information according to the user's preference. In this paper, we propose a new web sea...
Kenneth Wai-Ting Leung, Dik Lun Lee, Wang-Chien Le...
In this note we consider a simple reformulation of the traditional power iteration algorithm for computing the stationary distribution of a Markov chain. Rather than communicate t...