People are seldom aware that their search queries frequently mismatch a majority of the relevant documents. This may not be a big problem for topics with a large and diverse set o...
One of the key tasks for analyzing conversational data is segmenting it into coherent topic segments. However, most models of topic segmentation ignore the social aspect of conver...
Viet-An Nguyen, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Philip Resn...
Understanding the ways in which information achieves widespread public awareness is a research question of significant interest. We consider whether, and how, the way in which th...
This paper describes a novel approach towards the empirical approximation of discourse relations between different utterances in texts. Following the idea that every pair of event...
—In a traditional keyword-search system over XML data, a user composes a keyword query, submits it to the system, and retrieves relevant answers. In the case where the user has l...