For a given query raised by a specific user, the Query Suggestion technique aims to recommend relevant queries which potentially suit the information needs of that user. Due to th...
Classification of users' whereabouts patterns is important for many emerging ubiquitous computing applications. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a powerful mechanism to e...
Abstract. Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is an application of numerical method called singular value decomposition (SVD), which discovers latent semantic in documents by creating c...
In analyzing data from social and communication networks, we encounter the problem of classifying objects where there is an explicit link structure amongst the objects. We study t...
The problem of automatically classifying the gender of a blog author has important applications in many commercial domains. Existing systems mainly use features such as words, wor...