The OKKAM initiative1 has recently highlighted the need of moving from the traditional web towards a "web of entities", where real-world objects descriptions could be ret...
Document fields, such as the title or the headings of a document, offer a way to consider the structure of documents for retrieval. Most of the proposed approaches in the literatu...
Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...
Collective decision making involves on the one hand individual mental states such as beliefs, emotions and intentions, and on the other hand interaction with others with possibly d...
Mark Hoogendoorn, Jan Treur, C. Natalie van der Wa...
Every day the global media system produces an abundance of news stories, all containing many references to people. An important task is to automatically generate reliable lists of ...