This paper discusses the task of tracking mentions of some topically interesting textual entity from a continuously and dynamically changing flow of text, such as a news feed, the ...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
Knowledge plays a central role in intelligent systems. Manual knowledge acquisition is very inefficient and expensive. In this paper, we present (1) an automatic method to acquire...
Ping Chen, Wei Ding 0003, Chris Bowes, David Brown
In this note, we present results concerning the theory and practice of determining for a given document which of several categories it best fits. We describe a mathematical model ...
Finding out about a topic online can be time consuming. It involves visiting multiple news sites, encyclopedia entries, video repositories and other resources while discarding irr...
Francisco Iacobelli, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Bi...