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CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The effect of negation on sentiment analysis and retrieval effectiveness
We investigate the problem of determining the polarity of sentiments when one or more occurrences of a negation term such as “not” appear in a sentence. The concept of the sco...
Lifeng Jia, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Towards a universal wordnet by learning from combined evidence
Lexical databases are invaluable sources of knowledge about words and their meanings, with numerous applications in areas like NLP, IR, and AI. We propose a methodology for the au...
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Learning to rank from Bayesian decision inference
Ranking is a key problem in many information retrieval (IR) applications, such as document retrieval and collaborative filtering. In this paper, we address the issue of learning ...
Jen-Wei Kuo, Pu-Jen Cheng, Hsin-Min Wang
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A general markov framework for page importance computation
We propose a General Markov Framework for computing page importance. Under the framework, a Markov Skeleton Process is used to model the random walk conducted by the web surfer on...
Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Zhiming Ma, Taifeng Wang, Ha...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Generating comparative summaries of contradictory opinions in text
This paper presents a study of a novel summarization problem called contrastive opinion summarization (COS). Given two sets of positively and negatively opinionated sentences whic...
Hyun Duk Kim, ChengXiang Zhai
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Location cache for web queries
This paper proposes a strategy to reduce the amount of hardware involved in the solution of search engine queries. It proposes using a secondary compact cache that keeps minimal i...
Mauricio Marín, Flavio Ferrarotti, Marcelo ...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
MagicCube: choosing the best snippet for each aspect of an entity
Wikis are currently used in business to provide knowledge management systems, especially for individual organizations. However, building wikis manually is a laborious and time-con...
Yexin Wang, Li Zhao, Yan Zhang
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Beyond hyperlinks: organizing information footprints in search logs to support effective browsing
While current search engines serve known-item search such as homepage finding very well, they generally cannot support exploratory search effectively. In exploratory search, user...
Xuanhui Wang, Bin Tan, Azadeh Shakery, ChengXiang ...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Evaluation of methods for relative comparison of retrieval systems based on clickthroughs
The Cranfield evaluation method has some disadvantages, including its high cost in labor and inadequacy for evaluating interactive retrieval techniques. As a very promising alter...
Jing He, Chengxiang Zhai, Xiaoming Li