Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Many web pages and resources are primarily relevant to certain geographic locations. For example, in many queries web pages on restaurants, hotels, or movie theaters are only rele...
When a database query has a large number of results, the user can only be shown one page of results at a time. One popular approach is to rank results such that the "best&quo...
Ranking algorithms, whose goal is to appropriately order a set of objects/documents, are an important component of information retrieval systems. Previous work on ranking algorith...
CSCL systems can benefit from using grids since they offer a common infrastructure enabling the access to an extended pool of resources that can provide supercomputing capabilitie...
Guillermo Vega-Gorgojo, Miguel L. Bote-Lorenzo, Ed...