We illustrate that Web searches can often be utilized to generate background text for use with text classification. This is the case because there are frequently many pages on the...
In this work, we propose a new method for extracting user preferences from a few documents that might interest users. For this end, we first extract candidate terms and choose a n...
We present a discriminative method for learning selectional preferences from unlabeled text. Positive examples are taken from observed predicate-argument pairs, while negatives ar...
Traditionally, text classifiers are built from labeled training examples. Labeling is usually done manually by human experts (or the users), which is a labor intensive and time co...
Traditional classification involves building a classifier using labeled training examples from a set of predefined classes and then applying the classifier to classify test instan...