Language model (LM) adaptation is important for both speech and language processing. It is often achieved by combining a generic LM with a topic-specific model that is more releva...
Many applications involve multiple-modalities such as text and images that describe the problem of interest. In order to leverage the information present in all the modalities, on...
Abstract. User generated content in general, and blogs in particular, form an interesting and relatively little explored domain for mining knowledge. We address the task of blog di...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
Terms in textual documents tend to occur more in contexts to which they are related. We can exploit this bias by modelling terms and their cooccurrences s, resembling the abstract...
The detection of new information in a document stream is an important component of many potential applications. In this work, a new novelty detection approach based on the identif...