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...
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...
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...
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...
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...