This paper presents a general framework for building classifiers that deal with short and sparse text & Web segments by making the most of hidden topics discovered from larges...
Contextual advertising supports much of the Web's ecosystem today. User experience and revenue (shared by the site publisher ad the ad network) depend on the relevance of the...
The semantic web is expected to have an impact at least as big as that of the existing HTML based web, if not greater. However, the challenge lays in creating this semantic web an...
When searching large hypertext document collections, it is often possible that there are too many results available for ambiguous queries. Query refinement is an interactive proce...
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...