We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
Information-extraction (IE) systems seek to distill semantic relations from naturallanguage text, but most systems use supervised learning of relation-specific examples and are th...
Abstract. The manual acquisition and modeling of tourist information as e.g. addresses of points of interest is time and, therefore, cost intensive. Furthermore, the encoded inform...
In a traditional information retrieval system, it is assumed that queries can be posed about any topic. In reality, a large fraction of web queries are posed about a relatively sm...
This paper presents an approach for classifying students in order to predict their final grade based on features extracted from logged data in an education web-based system. A comb...