We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...
An “active learning system” will sequentially decide which unlabeled instance to label, with the goal of efficiently gathering the information necessary to produce a good cla...
We attack the task of predicting which news-stories are more appealing to a given audience by comparing ‘most popular stories’, gathered from various online news outlets, over ...
Elena Hensinger, Ilias N. Flaounas, Nello Cristian...
Unsupervised vector-based approaches to semantics can model rich lexical meanings, but they largely fail to capture sentiment information that is central to many word meanings and...
Andrew L. Maas, Raymond E. Daly, Peter T. Pham, Da...
Streaming user-generated content in the form of blogs, microblogs, forums, and multimedia sharing sites, provides a rich source of data from which invaluable information and insig...