Abstract. The original Semantic Web vision was explicit in the need for intelligent autonomous agents that would represent users and help them navigate the Semantic Web. We argue t...
Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, Peter Edwards, Alun D. Pr...
We introduce a new Bayesian model for hierarchical clustering based on a prior over trees called Kingman’s coalescent. We develop novel greedy and sequential Monte Carlo inferen...
We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...
We propose an online topic model for sequentially analyzing the time evolution of topics in document collections. Topics naturally evolve with multiple timescales. For example, so...
Although clustering under constraints is a current research topic, a hierarchical setting, in which a hierarchy of clusters is the goal, is usually not considered. This paper trie...