On-the-go consumers require dynamic information, particularly "word of mouth," to make better purchase decisions. A popular genre of mobile map services is travel/cuisin...
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
This paper explores two linguistically motivated restrictions on the set of words used for topic tracking on newspaper articles: named entities and headline words. We assume that n...
In this paper, we propose classifier ensemble selection for Named Entity Recognition (NER) as a single objective optimization problem. Thereafter, we develop a method based on gen...
This paper proposes a framework for semi-supervised structured output learning (SOL), specifically for sequence labeling, based on a hybrid generative and discriminative approach...