Social media sites (e.g., Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook) are a popular distribution outlet for users looking to share their experiences and interests on the Web. These sites host ...
Information retrieval is, in general, an iterative search process, in which the user often has several interactions with a retrieval system for an information need. The retrieval ...
This paper presents the Topic-Aspect Model (TAM), a Bayesian mixture model which jointly discovers topics and aspects. We broadly define an aspect of a document as a characteristi...
Mixture models form one of the most widely used classes of generative models for describing structured and clustered data. In this paper we develop a new approach for the analysis...
Search engine technology plays an important role in Web information retrieval. However, with Internet information explosion, traditional searching techniques cannot provide satisfa...
Baile Shi, Guoyu Hao, Hongtao Xu, Mei Wang, Qi Zha...