Search engines that support structured documents typically support structure created by the author (e.g., title, section), and may also support structure added by an annotation pr...
This paper describes our participation in the 2008 TREC Blog track. Our system consists of 3 components: data preprocessing, topic retrieval, and opinion finding. In the topic ret...
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) has been validated to be effective on many small scale text collections. However, little evidence has shown its effectiveness on unsampled large sca...
Recommender Systems are gaining widespread acceptance in e-commerce applications to confront the information overload problem. Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a successful recommen...
This paper presents SPEX, a streamed and progressive evaluation of regular path expressions with XPath-like qualifiers against XML streams. SPEX proceeds as follows. An expression...