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...
Although most of existing research usually detects events by analyzing the content or structural information of Web documents, a recent direction is to study the usage data. In th...
We study in this paper the Web forum crawling problem, which is a very fundamental step in many Web applications, such as search engine and Web data mining. As a typical user-crea...
Rui Cai, Jiang-Ming Yang, Wei Lai, Yida Wang, Lei ...
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a constraint-partitioning approach for finding local optimal solutions of large-scale mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems (MINLPs). Ba...