We describe improved mechanisms to accurately classify days when news for topics receive unexpectedly high amount of coverage. We further investigate the factors which influence t...
Abstract. In recent years, personalized news recommendation has received increasing attention in IR community. The core problem of personalized recommendation is to model and track...
We introduce a method to extract topic threads throughout a large-scale news video corpus as well as an interface that provides the users with the facility to browse through the c...
The use of blogs to track and comment on real world (political, news, entertainment) events is growing. Similarly, as more individuals start relying on the Web as their primary in...
This paper describes the THISL system that participated in the TREC-7 evaluation, Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track, and presents the results obtained, together with some anal...
Dave Abberley, Steve Renals, Gary Cook, Anthony J....