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Data acquisition is a major concern in text classification. The excessive human efforts required by conventional methods to build up quality training collection might not always b...
There are information needs involving costly decisions that cannot be efficiently satisfied through conventional web search engines. Alternately, community centric search can prov...
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Jun'ichi Tatemu...
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Comparing and contrasting is an important strategy people employ to understand new situations and create solutions for new problems. Similar events can provide hints for problem s...