This paper introduces the novel task of topic coherence evaluation, whereby a set of words, as generated by a topic model, is rated for coherence or interpretability. We apply a r...
David Newman, Jey Han Lau, Karl Grieser, Timothy B...
Abstract. As the type of content available on the web is becoming increasingly diverse, a particular challenge is to properly determine the types of documents sought by a user, tha...
Shanu Sushmita, Benjamin Piwowarski, Mounia Lalmas
Many web-search queries serve as the beginning of an exploration of an unknown space of information, rather than looking for a specific web page. To answer such queries effectiv...
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
The Web contains a large amount of documents and increasingly, also semantic data in the form of RDF triples. Many of these triples are annotations that are associated with docume...