We present an approach to learning the personal preferences of individual users directly from example images. The target application is computer assisted search of partners in onl...
Question classification (QC) plays a key role in automated question answering (QA) systems. In Chinese QC, for example, a question is analyzed and then labeled with the question ty...
Where Information Retrieval (IR) and Text Categorization delivers a set of (ranked) documents according to a query, users of large document collections would rather like to receiv...
Large general-purposed community question-answering sites are becoming popular as a new venue for generating knowledge and helping users in their information needs. In this paper ...
We propose a new unsupervised learning technique for extracting information from large text collections. We model documents as if they were generated by a two-stage stochastic pro...
Mark Steyvers, Padhraic Smyth, Michal Rosen-Zvi, T...