We introduce the Ranked Feature Fusion framework for information retrieval system design. Typical information retrieval formalisms such as the vector space model, the bestmatch mo...
An expert finding system allows a user to type a simple text query and retrieve names and contact information of individuals that possess the expertise expressed in the query. Thi...
Statistical topic models provide a general data-driven framework for automated discovery of high-level knowledge from large collections of text documents. While topic models can p...
Chaitanya Chemudugunta, Padhraic Smyth, Mark Steyv...
Finding opinionated blog posts is still an open problem in information retrieval, as exemplified by the recent TREC blog tracks. Most of the current solutions involve the use of e...
Document understanding techniques such as document clustering and multi-document summarization have been receiving much attention in recent years. Current document clustering meth...
Dingding Wang, Shenghuo Zhu, Tao Li, Yun Chi, Yiho...