This paper addresses the problem of Named Entity Recognition in Query (NERQ), which involves detection of the named entity in a given query and classification of the named entity...
Modern retrieval test collections are built through a process called pooling in which only a sample of the entire document set is judged for each topic. The idea behind pooling is...
Chris Buckley, Darrin Dimmick, Ian Soboroff, Ellen...
Effectively summarizing Web page collections becomes more and more critical as the amount of information continues to grow on the World Wide Web. A concise and meaningful summary ...
Yongzheng Zhang, A. Nur Zincir-Heywood, Evangelos ...
Many blog posts deal with current issues, so much attention has been paid to identifying topic trends in blogs. This paper suggests a new metric of selecting topic words. We empiri...
Il-Chul Moon, Young-Min Kim, Hyun-Jong Lee, Alice ...
We propose a novel approach to crosslingual language model (LM) adaptation based on bilingual Latent Semantic Analysis (bLSA). A bLSA model is introduced which enables latent topi...