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EDM
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Off Topic Conversation in Expert Tutoring: Waste of Time or Learning Opportunity
While many aspects of tutoring have been identified and studied, off topic conversation has been largely ignored. In this paper, off topic conversation during 50 hours of one-to-on...
Blair Lehman, Whitney L. Cade, Andrew Olney
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Topical and Structural Linkage in Wikipedia
We explore statistical properties of links within Wikipedia. We demonstrate that a simple algorithm can predict many of the links that would normally be added to a new article, wit...
Kelly Y. Itakura, Charles L. A. Clarke, Shlomo Gev...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Topic (query) selection for IR evaluation
The need for evaluating large amounts of topics (queries) makes IR evaluation an uneasy task. In this paper, we study a topic selection problem for IR evaluation. The selection cr...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Vishwa Vinay, Ingemar J. Co...
CORR
2012
Springer
220views Education» more  CORR 2012»
12 years 3 months ago
Sparse Topical Coding
We present sparse topical coding (STC), a non-probabilistic formulation of topic models for discovering latent representations of large collections of data. Unlike probabilistic t...
Jun Zhu, Eric P. Xing
SBP
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Convergence of Influential Bloggers for Topic Discovery in the Blogosphere
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to automatically detect "hot" or important topics of discussion in the blogosphere. The proposed approach is based on analyzing...
Shamanth Kumar, Reza Zafarani, Mohammad Ali Abbasi...