Computer Science has affected almost all fields of human knowledge, contributing to scientific advances in many branches of Natural and Social Sciences. Journalism is one of th...
Ronaldo Cristiano Prati, Walter Teixeira Lima Juni...
When newsworthy events occur, information quickly spreads across the Web, along official news outlets as well as across social media platforms. Information diffusion models can h...
Abstract. Retrieving finer grained text units such as passages or sentences as answers for non-factoid Web queries is becoming increasingly important for applications such as mobi...
Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Damiano Spina, Ruey-Cheng Ch...
Abstract. Although relevance is known to be a multidimensional concept, information retrieval measures mainly consider one dimension of relevance: topicality. In this paper we prop...
Online learning to rank methods aim to optimize ranking models based on user interactions. The dueling bandit gradient descent (DBGD) algorithm is able to effectively optimize line...
Consumer reviews provide a wealth of information about products and services that, if properly identified and extracted, could be of immense value to businesses. While classifica...
Mehedi Hasan, Alexander Kotov, Aravind Mohan, Shiy...
Abstract. We present a dataset for learning to rank in the medical domain, consisting of thousands of full-text queries that are linked to thousands of research articles. The queri...
Vera Boteva, Demian Gholipour, Artem Sokolov, Stef...
This paper presents an approach to detect real-world events as manifested in news texts. We use vector space models, particularly neural embeddings (prediction-based distributiona...
In many questions in Community Question Answering sites users look for the advice or opinion of other users who might offer diverse perspectives on a topic at hand. The novel task...
Liora Braunstain, Oren Kurland, David Carmel, Idan...
In this paper we study key estimation in electronic dance music, an umbrella term referring to a variety of electronic music subgenres intended for dancing at nightclubs and raves....