The rapid growth of the world wide web had made the problem of topic speci c resource discovery an important one in recent years. In this problem, it is desired to nd web pages wh...
Abstract— The Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) research community investigates information retrieval methods for organizing a constantly arriving stream of news articles by the...
James Allan, Stephen M. Harding, David Fisher, Alv...
Standard approaches to evaluating and comparing information retrieval systems compute simple averages of performance statistics across individual topics to measure the overall sys...
We propose a new unsupervised learning technique for extracting information about authors and topics from large text collections. We model documents as if they were generated by a...
Michal Rosen-Zvi, Chaitanya Chemudugunta, Thomas L...
There is a widespread intuitive sense that different kinds of information spread differently on-line, but it has been difficult to evaluate this question quantitatively since it ...
Daniel M. Romero, Brendan Meeder, Jon M. Kleinberg