Question Answering (QA) systems automatically answer natural language questions in a human-like manner. One of the practical approaches to open domain QA consists in extracting fa...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
Background: Probability based statistical learning methods such as mutual information and Bayesian networks have emerged as a major category of tools for reverse engineering mecha...
This paper presents a general framework for building classifiers that deal with short and sparse text & Web segments by making the most of hidden topics discovered from larges...
Many real-world domains present the problem of imbalanced data sets, where examples of one classes significantly outnumber examples of other classes. This makes learning difficu...
We consider the problem of identifying the consensus ranking for the results of a query, given preferences among those results from a set of individual users. Once consensus ranki...
Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Anton M...