When the same set of people interact frequently with one another, they grow to think more and more along the same lines, a phenomenon we call "collective cognitive convergenc...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Rainer H...
There are significant barriers to academic research into user Web search preferences. Academic researchers are unable to manipulate the results shown by a major search engine to ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Ramesh S. Sankaranar...
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...
In this paper, we propose a new variant of Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA): Collective LDA (C-LDA), for multiple corpora modeling. C-LDA combines multiple corpora during learning...
The automatic detection of semantic events in users’ image and video collections is an important technique for content management and retrieval. In this paper we propose a novel...