The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
As the number of non-English documents is increasing dramatically on the web nowadays, the study and design of information retrieval systems for these languages is very important....
Abolfazl AleAhmad, Hadi Amiri, Masoud Rahgozar, Fa...
The non-English Web is growing at breakneck speed, but available language processing tools are mostly English based. Taxonomies are a case in point: while there are plenty of comm...
Xuerui Wang, Andrei Z. Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich...
Recent availability of commercial online machine translation (MT) systems makes it possible for layman Web users to utilize the MT capability for cross-language information retrie...
This work addresses the use of computational linguistic analysis techniques for conceptual graphs learning from unstructured texts. A technique including both content mining and i...
Greek is one of the most difficult languages to handle in Web Information Retrieval (IR) related tasks. Its difficulty stems from the fact that it is grammatically, morphologicall...
This paper investigates using social tags for the purpose of making personalized content recommendations. Our tag-based recommender creates a personalized bookmark recommendation ...
Pavan Kumar Vatturi, Werner Geyer, Casey Dugan, Mi...
When researching new product ideas or filing new patents, inventors need to retrieve all relevant pre-existing know-how and/or to exploit and enforce patents in their technologica...
Milan Agatonovic, Niraj Aswani, Kalina Bontcheva, ...
Online communities are connecting hordes of individuals and generating rich social network data. The social capital that resides within these networks is largely unknown. We propo...