Typically, searching for information in a document collection amounts to refining a query and then scanning a large number of documents to determine their relevance. Active Summar...
Needs-based analysis lies at the intersection of product marketing and new product development. It is the study of why consumers purchase and what they do with those purchases. In...
In this paper, we describe a novel Web query processing approach with learning capabilities. Under this approach, user queries are in the form of keywords and search engines are e...
Statistical machine learning techniques for data classification usually assume that all entities are i.i.d. (independent and identically distributed). However, real-world entities...
We present a framework for automatically summarizing social group activity over time. The problem is important in understanding large scale online social networks, which have dive...