Entity profiling is the task of identifying and ranking descriptions of a given entity. The task may be viewed as one where the descriptions being sought are terms that need to be ...
Maarten de Rijke, Krisztian Balog, Toine Bogers, A...
The Named Entity Recognition (NER) task has been garnering significant attention in NLP as it helps improve the performance of many natural language processing applications. In th...
Web entities, such as documents and hyperlinks, are created for different purposes, or intents. Existing intent-based retrieval methods largely focus on information seekers’ int...
Abstract. We study the relation between PageRank and other parameters of information networks such as in-degree, out-degree, and the fraction of dangling nodes. We model this relat...
We present a class of models that are discriminatively trained to directly map from the word content in a query-document or documentdocument pair to a ranking score. Like Latent Se...
Bing Bai, Jason Weston, David Grangier, Ronan Coll...