This paper develops a general, formal framework for modeling term dependencies via Markov random fields. The model allows for arbitrary text features to be incorporated as eviden...
Although answering list questions is not a new research area, answering them automatically still remains a challenge. The median F-score of systems that participated in TREC 2007 ...
In this paper, we introduce a system named Argo which provides intelligent advertising made possible from users’ photo collections. Based on the intuition that user-generated ph...
Xin-Jing Wang, Mo Yu, Lei Zhang, Rui Cai, Wei-Ying...
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
—Instant Messaging (IM) service is a killer application in the Internet. Due to the problem of IM spam (SPIM), building an effective anti-spim method is an important research top...