Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...
We have been working on two different KDD systems for scientific data. One system involves comparative genomics, where the database contains more than 60,000 plant gene and protei...
A weakly-supervised extraction method identifies concepts within conceptual hierarchies, at the appropriate level of specificity (e.g., Bank vs. Institution), to which attribute...
Linear Relational Embedding (LRE) was introduced (Paccanaro and Hinton, 1999) as a means of extracting a distributed representation of concepts from relational data. The original ...
In this work, we propose a new method for extracting user preferences from a few documents that might interest users. For this end, we first extract candidate terms and choose a n...