The web contains lots of interesting factual information about entities, such as celebrities, movies or products. This paper describes a robust bootstrapping approach to corrobora...
An important problem in data mining is detecting changes in large data sets. Although there are a variety of change detection algorithms that have been developed, in practice it c...
Chris Curry, Robert L. Grossman, David Locke, Stev...
Modeling the evolution of topics with time is of great value in automatic summarization and analysis of large document collections. In this work, we propose a new probabilistic gr...
Ramesh Nallapati, Susan Ditmore, John D. Lafferty,...
Abstract. As more and more person-specific data like health information becomes available, increasing attention is paid to confidentiality and privacy protection. One proposed mode...
The top web search result is crucial for user satisfaction with the web search experience. We argue that the importance of the relevance at the top position necessitates special h...