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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Visualizing the problems with the INEX topics
Topics form a crucial component of a test collection. We show, through visualization, that the INEX 2008 topics have shortcomings, which questions their validity for evaluating XM...
Andrew Trotman, Maria del Rocio Gomez Crisostomo, ...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Advanced Capabilities for Evaluating Student Writing: Detecting Off-Topic Essays Without Topic-Specific Training
We have developed a method to identify when a student essay is off-topic, i.e. the essay does not respond to the test question topic. This task is motivated by a real-world problem...
Jill Burstein, Derrick Higgins
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Improving the classification of newsgroup messages through social network analysis
Newsgroup participants interact with their communities through conversation threads. They may respond to a message to answer a question, debate a topic, support or disagree with a...
Blaz Fortuna, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Natasa Mil...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Purely URL-based topic classification
Given only the URL of a web page, can we identify its topic? This is the question that we examine in this paper. Usually, web pages are classified using their content [7], but a U...
Eda Baykan, Monika Rauch Henzinger, Ludmila Marian...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
A Comparison of Information Seeking Using Search Engines and Social Networks
The Web has become an important information repository; often it is the first source a person turns to with an information need. One common way to search the Web is with a search ...
Meredith Ringel Morris, Jaime Teevan, Katrina Pano...