A common task in many applications is to find persons who are knowledgeable about a given topic (i.e., expert finding). In this paper, we propose and develop a general probabilis...
In this paper we present a system which uses ontological resources and a gene name variation generation tool to expand concepts in the original query. The novelty of our approach ...
Nicola Stokes, Yi Li, Lawrence Cavedon, Eric Huang...
Automated detection of the first document reporting each new event in temporally-sequenced streams of documents is an open challenge. In this paper we propose a new approach which...
Yiming Yang, Jian Zhang, Jaime G. Carbonell, Chun ...
When data sets are analyzed, statistical pattern recognition is often used to find the information hidden in the data. Another approach to information discovery is data mining. Dat...
In contrast to traditional document retrieval, a web page as a whole is not a good information unit to search because it often contains multiple topics and a lot of irrelevant inf...