This paper tackles textual demand analysis, the task of capturing what people want or need, rather than identifying what they like or dislike, on which much conventional work has ...
Opinion mining is a recent subdiscipline of computational linguistics which is concerned not with the topic a document is about, but with the opinion it expresses. To aid the extr...
We consider the problem of identifying the consensus ranking for the results of a query, given preferences among those results from a set of individual users. Once consensus ranki...
Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Anton M...
This paper proposes a novel application of a statistical language model to opinionated document retrieval targeting weblogs (blogs). In particular, we explore the use of the trigg...
The success of open government initiatives depends on understanding the informational needs of the concerned citizens and other stakeholders as prerequisite for open access to rel...