Most e-learning environments which utilize user feedback or profiles, collect such information based on questionnaires, resulting very often in incomplete answers, and sometimes de...
We present a hybrid method to turn off-the-shelf information retrieval (IR) systems into future event predictors. Given a query, a time series model is trained on the publication...
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Online reputation management is about monitoring and handling the public image of entities (such as companies) on the Web. An important task in this area is identifying aspects of...
Damiano Spina, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, Andre...
The constant expansion of the World Wide Web allows users to enjoy a wide range of products and services delivered directly to their browsers. At the same time however, this expans...
Nick Nikiforakis, Steven Van Acker, Frank Piessens...