We present a hybrid method to turn off-the-shelf information retrieval (IR) systems into future event predictors. Given a query, a time series model is trained on the publication...
In this paper, we introduce an information theoretic method for estimating the usefulness of the hyperlink structure induced from the set of retrieved documents. We evaluate the e...
The overwhelming success of the Web as a mechanism for facilitating information retrieval and for conducting business transactions has led to an increase in the deployment of comp...
Bowei Xi, Zhen Liu, Mukund Raghavachari, Cathy H. ...
This paper focuses on ‘user browsing graph’ which is constructed with users’ click-through behavior modeled with Web access logs. User browsing graph has recently been adopt...
Community Question Answering (CQA) has emerged as a popular forum for users to pose questions for other users to answer. Over the last few years, CQA portals such as Naver and Yah...