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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Semi-supervised multi-task learning of structured prediction models for web information extraction
Extracting information from web pages is an important problem; it has several applications such as providing improved search results and construction of databases to serve user qu...
Paramveer S. Dhillon, Sundararajan Sellamanickam, ...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 months ago
Ranking-based processing of SQL queries
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...
Hany Azzam, Thomas Roelleke, Sirvan Yahyaei
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Building directories for social tagging systems
Today, a number of algorithms exist for constructing tag hierarchies from social tagging data. While these algorithms were designed with ontological goals in mind, we know very li...
Denis Helic, Markus Strohmaier
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
A probabilistic method for inferring preferences from clicks
Evaluating rankers using implicit feedback, such as clicks on documents in a result list, is an increasingly popular alternative to traditional evaluation methods based on explici...
Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson, Maarten de Rijke
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
An efficient method for using machine translation technologies in cross-language patent search
Topics in prior-art patent search are typically full patent applications and relevant items are patents often taken from sources in different languages. Cross language patent retr...
Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Keyword search over RDF graphs
Large knowledge bases consisting of entities and relationships between them have become vital sources of information for many applications. Most of these knowledge bases adopt the...
Shady Elbassuoni, Roi Blanco
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Worker types and personality traits in crowdsourcing relevance labels
Crowdsourcing platforms offer unprecedented opportunities for creating evaluation benchmarks, but suffer from varied output quality from crowd workers who possess different levels...
Gabriella Kazai, Jaap Kamps, Natasa Milic-Frayling