Search engine switching describes the voluntarily transition from one Web search engine to another. In this paper we present a study of search engine switching behavior that combi...
In this paper, the task of text segmentation is approached from a topic modeling perspective. We investigate the use of latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic model to segment a ...
While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
Olivier Chapelle, Donald Metlzer, Ya Zhang, Pierre...
We are building an interactive, visual text analysis tool that aids users in analyzing a large collection of text. Unlike existing work in text analysis, which focuses either on d...
Given an author-conference graph, how do we answer proximity queries (e.g., what are the most related conferences for John Smith?); how can we tailor the search result if the user...
Many users need to refer to content in existing files (pictures, tables, emails, web pages and etc.) when they write documents(programs, presentations, proposals and etc.), and o...
Skyline query has been received much attention due to its wide application backgrounds for multi-preference and decision making. In this paper we consider skyline query evaluation...
The publish-subscribe paradigm is an effective approach for data publishers to asynchronously disseminate relevant data to a large number of data subscribers. A lot of recent res...
A communication trace is a detailed record of the communication between two entities. Communication traces are vital for research in computer networks and protocols in many domain...