Topical blog post retrieval is the task of ranking blog posts with respect to their relevance for a given topic. To improve topical blog post retrieval we incorporate textual cred...
Topical noise in blogs arises when bloggers digress from the central topical thrust of their blogs. We introduce a method to explicitly incorporate a model of topical noise into a...
Background: Our approach to Task 1A was inspired by Tanabe and Wilbur's ABGene system [1,2]. Like Tanabe and Wilbur, we approached the problem as one of part-of-speech taggin...
Shuhei Kinoshita, K. Bretonnel Cohen, Philip V. Og...
Analyzing the author and topic relations in email corpus is an important issue in both social network analysis and text mining. The AuthorTopic model is a statistical model that id...
We present a novel hierarchical prior structure for supervised transfer learning in named entity recognition, motivated by the common structure of feature spaces for this task acr...