Computer science faculty must attract and retain students by offering innovative courses that spark student interest, yet still teach core, computer science concepts. These effort...
Mark W. Bailey, Clark L. Coleman, Jack W. Davidson
Motivated by our work with political scientists who need to manually analyze large Web archives of news sites, we present SpotSigs, a new algorithm for extracting and matching sig...
Martin Theobald, Jonathan Siddharth, Andreas Paepc...
One of the central issues in learning to rank for information retrieval is to develop algorithms that construct ranking models by directly optimizing evaluation measures used in i...
Online communities have become popular for publishing and searching content, as well as for finding and connecting to other users. User-generated content includes, for example, pe...
Ralf Schenkel, Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebast...
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...