The world wide web has a wealth of information that is related to almost any text classification task. This paper presents a method for mining the web to improve text classificati...
We illustrate that Web searches can often be utilized to generate background text for use with text classification. This is the case because there are frequently many pages on the...
: This is the first year our lab to participate in Trec. We participate in Mixed-Query task for the Web track. All the runs we submitted are based on the modified Okapi weighting s...
Abstract. This paper describes an efficient method to construct reliable machine learning applications in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks by building ensemble based meta methods. We co...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...