Abstract. Machine learning ranking methods are increasingly applied to ranking tasks in information retrieval (IR). However ranking tasks in IR often differ from standard ranking t...
The problem of measuring similarity between web pages arises in many important Web applications, such as search engines and Web directories. In this paper, we propose a novel neig...
The main statistics used in rough set data analysis, the approximation quality, is of limited value when there is a choice of competing models for predicting a decision variable. ...
Over the years, the notion of concept relatedness has attracted considerable attention. A variety of approaches, based on ontology structure, information content, association, or ...
Dolf Trieschnigg, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, We...
This paper presents an application of information theory to identify sets of key players in social networks. First, we define two entropy measures that we use to analyze the struct...