An important challenge for biomedical information retrieval (IR) is dealing with the complex, inconsistent and ambiguous biomedical terminology. Frequently, a concept-based repres...
Dolf Trieschnigg, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jo...
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
This paper aims to detect users generating spam reviews or review spammers. We identify several characteristic behaviors of review spammers and model these behaviors so as to dete...
A typical collection of personal information contains many documents and mentions many concepts (e.g., person names, events, etc.). In this environment, associative browsing betwe...
Jinyoung Kim, Anton Bakalov, David A. Smith, W. Br...
It is well known that it is an ill-posed problem to decide whether a function has a multiple root. Even for a univariate polynomial an arbitrary small perturbation of a polynomial ...