We hypothesized that language modeling retrieval would improve if we reduced the need for document smoothing to provide an inverse document frequency (IDF) like effect. We create...
We propose that the information access behavior of a group of people can be modeled as an information flow issue, in which people intentionally or unintentionally influence and in...
Xiaodan Song, Belle L. Tseng, Ching-Yung Lin, Ming...
Co-occurrence data is quite common in many real applications. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) has been successfully used to identify semantic relations in such data. However, LSA c...
New types of document collections are being developed by various web services. The service providers keep track of non-textual features such as click counts. In this paper, we pre...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee, Soyeon P...
Content-targeted advertising, the task of automatically associating ads to a Web page, constitutes a key Web monetization strategy nowadays. Further, it introduces new challenging...