Leveraging information from relevance assessments has been proposed as an effective means for improving retrieval. We introduce a novel language modeling method which uses inform...
Expertise retrieval has received increased interests in recent years, whose task is to suggest people with relevant expertise. Motivated by the observation that communities could ...
Previous anti-spamming algorithms based on link structure suffer from either the weakness of the page value metric or the vagueness of the seed selection. In this paper, we propos...
On-line news agents provide commenting facilities for readers to express their views with regard to news stories. The number of user supplied comments on a news article may be ind...
Topic-based text summaries promise to help average users quickly understand a text collection and derive insights. Recent research has shown that the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (...