Ranking is a key problem in many information retrieval (IR) applications, such as document retrieval and collaborative filtering. In this paper, we address the issue of learning ...
A thesaurus and an ontology provide a set of structured terms, phrases, and metadata, often in a hierarchical arrangement, that may be used to index, search, and mine documents. W...
An important issue in text mining is how to make use of multiple pieces knowledge discovered to improve future decisions. In this paper, we propose a new approach to combining mult...
Classification problems in critical applications such as health care or security often require very high reliability because of the high costs of errors. In order to achieve this r...
Subgroup discovery aims at finding subsets of a population whose class distribution is significantly different from the overall distribution. It has previously predominantly been...