With the increasing popularity of location-based services, such as tour guide and location-based social network, we now have accumulated many location data on the Web. In this pap...
Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Qiang Y...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
Background: Modern high throughput experimental techniques such as DNA microarrays often result in large lists of genes. Computational biology tools such as clustering are then us...
Alain B. Tchagang, Alexander Gawronski, Hugo B&eac...
The boom of product review websites, blogs and forums on the web has attracted many research efforts on opinion mining. Recently, there was a growing interest in the finergrained ...
Qi Su, Xinying Xu, Honglei Guo, Zhili Guo, Xian Wu...