Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
We present a system that gathers and analyzes online discussion as it relates to consumer products. Weblogs and online message boards provide forums that record the voice of the p...
Natalie S. Glance, Matthew Hurst, Kamal Nigam, Mat...
In this paper we propose a methodology to learn to extract domain-specific information from large repositories (e.g. the Web) with minimum user intervention. Learning is seeded b...
Fabio Ciravegna, Alexiei Dingli, David Guthrie, Yo...
Although Web search engines are targeted towards helping people find new information, people regularly use them to re-find Web pages they have seen before. Researchers have noted ...
A web search with double checking model is proposed to explore the web as a live corpus. Five association measures including variants of Dice, Overlap Ratio, Jaccard, and Cosine, ...