The task in expert finding is to identify members of an organization with relevant expertise on a given topic. In existing expert finding systems, profiles are constructed from sou...
Maryam Karimzadehgan, Ryen W. White, Matthew Richa...
This paper presents the design of a new interface for interactive Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) called Ievent. It is composed of 3 main views; a Cluster View, a Document View,...
Graphical models have become the basic framework for topic based probabilistic modeling. Especially models with latent variables have proved to be effective in capturing hidden str...
Statistical approaches to language learning typically focus on either short-range syntactic dependencies or long-range semantic dependencies between words. We present a generative...
Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark Steyvers, David M. Blei,...
We investigate three issues in distributed information retrieval, considering both TREC data and U.S. Patents: (1) topical organization of large text collections, (2) collection r...
Leah S. Larkey, Margaret E. Connell, James P. Call...