Given a random set coming from the imprecise observation of a random variable, we study how to model the information about the distribution of this random variable. Specifically,...
An expert finding system allows a user to type a simple text query and retrieve names and contact information of individuals that possess the expertise expressed in the query. Thi...
Abstract. We show that several previously proposed passage-based document ranking principles, along with some new ones, can be derived from the same probabilistic model. We use lan...
This paper proposes a distributional model of word use and word meaning which is derived purely from a body of text, and then applies this model to determine whether certain words...
Unsupervised clustering can be significantly improved using supervision in the form of pairwise constraints, i.e., pairs of instances labeled as belonging to same or different clu...