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2005
ACM
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14 years 29 days ago
Topic transition detection using hierarchical hidden Markov and semi-Markov models
In this paper we introduce a probabilistic framework to exploit hierarchy, structure sharing and duration information for topic transition detection in videos. Our probabilistic d...
Dinh Q. Phung, Thi V. Duong, Svetha Venkatesh, Hun...
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Improving novelty detection for general topics using sentence level information patterns
The detection of new information in a document stream is an important component of many potential applications. In this work, a new novelty detection approach based on the identif...
Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft
CHI
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Knowledge in the head and on the web: using topic expertise to aid search
The importance of background knowledge for effective searching on the Web is not well understood. Participants were given trivia questions on two topics and asked to answer them f...
Geoffrey B. Duggan, Stephen J. Payne
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Collaborative Topic Tracking in an Enterprise Environment
Business users in an enterprise need to keep track of relevant information available on the Web for strategic decisions like mergers and acquisitions. Traditionally this is done by...
Conny Franke, Omar Alonso
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Biasing web search results for topic familiarity
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Giridhar Kumaran, Rosie Jones, Omid Madani