—This paper presents an approach using social semantics for the task of topic labelling by means of Open Topic Models. Our approach utilizes a social ontology to create an alignm...
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
This paper presents a document image thresholding technique that binarizes badly illuminated document images by the photometric correction. Based on the observation that illuminat...
In this paper, we present a method for structuring a document according to the information present in its Table of Contents. The detection of the ToC as well as the determination ...