Formal modelling, in interactive system design, has received considerably less real use than might have been hoped. Heavy weight formal methods can be expensive to use, with poor c...
As an effective technique for improving retrieval effectiveness, relevance feedback (RF) has been widely studied in both monolingual and cross-language information retrieval (CLIR...
Implicit feedback algorithms utilize interaction between searchers and search systems to learn more about users’ needs and interests than expressed in query statements alone. Th...
There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a result of modern Web languages, user tagging and annotation, and emerging robust NLP tools. These meaningful, semantic, ...
Abstract--The automatic discovery of group conversational behavior is a relevant problem in social computing. In this paper, we present an approach to address this problem by defin...