Abstract— In this work, web-based metrics for semantic similarity computation between words or terms are presented and compared with the state-of-the-art. Starting from the funda...
We present a method for automatically generating focused and accurate topicspecific subjectivity lexicons from a general purpose polarity lexicon that allow users to pin-point sub...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkam...
Traditional adaptive filtering systems learn the user’s interests in a rather simple way – words from relevant documents are favored in the query model, while words from irre...
With an explosive growth of blogs, information seeking in blogosphere becomes more and more challenging. One example task is to find the most relevant topical blogs against a give...
The retrieval of sentences that are relevant to a given information need is a challenging passage retrieval task. In this context, the well-known vocabulary mismatch problem arises...