This paper introduces the concepts of asking point and expected answer type as variations of the question focus. They are of particular importance for QA over semistructured data,...
Alexander Mikhailian, Tiphaine Dalmas, Rani Pinchu...
The diffusion process on weblogs has attracted great interest since the early days of weblog studies. We propose a ranking technique which extracts topics and innovators by analyz...
Tadanobu Furukawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Ikki Ohmukai, Ko...
This paper proposes a new algorithm of associated topic extraction, which detects related topics in a collection of blog entries commenting on a specified topic. The main feature ...
This work presents a study to bridge topic modeling and personalized search. A probabilistic topic model is used to extract topics from user search history. These topics can be se...