The classical (ad hoc) document retrieval problem has been traditionally approached through ranking according to heuristically developed functions (such as tf.idf or bm25) or gene...
As the amount of available electronic information is dramatically increasing, the ability for rapid and e ective access to information has become critical. Most traditional inform...
Abstract. Relevance feedback, which uses the terms in relevant documents to enrich the user’s initial query, is an effective method for improving retrieval performance. An assoc...
The growing availability of online text has lead to an increase in the use of automatic knowledge acquisition approaches from textual data, as in Information Extraction (IE). Some ...
The human ability to learn difficult object categories from just a few views is often explained by an extensive use of knowledge from related classes. In this work we study the use...