This paper describes our participation in the 2008 TREC Blog track. Our system consists of 3 components: data preprocessing, topic retrieval, and opinion finding. In the topic ret...
Abstract. We present the results of UMBC’s participation in the Web and Novelty tracks. We explored various heuristics-based link analysis approaches to the Topic Distillation ta...
Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Ch...
We present a passage relevance model for integrating syntactic and semantic evidence of biomedical concepts and topics using a probabilistic graphical model. Component models of t...
In the recent years, the Web has been rapidly “deepened” with the prevalence of databases online. On this deep Web, many sources are structured by providing structured query i...
Multi-hop cluster hierarchy has been presented as an organization for large wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that can provide scalable routing, data aggregation, and querying. In th...