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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Focusing on novelty: a crawling strategy to build diverse language models
Word prediction performed by language models has an important role in many tasks as e.g. word sense disambiguation, speech recognition, hand-writing recognition, query spelling an...
Luciano Barbosa, Srinivas Bangalore
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Personalizing web search results by reading level
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Do all birds tweet the same?: characterizing twitter around the world
Social media services have spread throughout the world in just a few years. They have become not only a new source of information, but also new mechanisms for societies world-wide...
Barbara Poblete, Ruth Garcia, Marcelo Mendoza, Ale...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Fact-based question decomposition for candidate answer re-ranking
Factoid questions often contain one or more assertions (facts) about their answers. However, existing question-answering (QA) systems have not investigated how the multiple facts ...
Aditya Kalyanpur, Siddharth Patwardhan, Branimir B...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Semantic data markets: a flexible environment for knowledge management
We present Nyaya, a system for the management of Semantic-Web data which couples a general-purpose and extensible storage mechanism with efficient ontology reasoning and querying ...
Roberto De Virgilio, Giorgio Orsi, Letizia Tanca, ...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Effective retrieval of resources in folksonomies using a new tag similarity measure
Social (or folksonomic) tagging has become a very popular way to describe content within Web 2.0 websites. However, as tags are informally defined, continually changing, and ungo...
Giovanni Quattrone, Licia Capra, Pasquale De Meo, ...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Conkar: constraint keyword-based association discovery
In many domains, such as bioinformatics, cheminformatics, health informatics and social networks, data can be represented naturally as labeled graphs. To address the increasing ne...
Mo Zhou, Yifan Pan, Yuqing Wu
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
S3K: seeking statement-supporting top-K witnesses
Traditional information retrieval techniques based on keyword search help to identify a ranked set of relevant documents, which often contains many documents in the top ranks that...
Steffen Metzger, Shady Elbassuoni, Katja Hose, Ral...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Hybrid models for future event prediction
We present a hybrid method to turn off-the-shelf information retrieval (IR) systems into future event predictors. Given a query, a time series model is trained on the publication...
Giuseppe Amodeo, Roi Blanco, Ulf Brefeld
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
A pairwise ranking based approach to learning with positive and unlabeled examples
Sundararajan Sellamanickam, Priyanka Garg, Sathiya...