Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...
Wikipedia is the largest monolithic repository of human knowledge. In addition to its sheer size, it represents a new encyclopedic paradigm by interconnecting articles through hyp...
The blogosphere--the totality of blog-related Web sites-has become a great source of trend analysis in areas such as product survey, customer relationship, and marketing. Existing...
The aim of this short paper is to present a general method of using background knowledge to impose constraints in conceptual clustering of object-attribute relational data. The pr...
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) has been a popular method for extracting features which preserve class separability. It has been widely used in many fields of information proces...