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CIKM
1999
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A Unified Environment for Fusion of Information Retrieval Approaches
Prior work has shown that combining results of various retrieval approaches and query representations can improve search effectiveness. Today, many meta-search engines exist which...
M. Catherine McCabe, Abdur Chowdhury, David A. Gro...
KDD
2004
ACM
210views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
16 years 2 months ago
Probabilistic author-topic models for information discovery
We propose a new unsupervised learning technique for extracting information from large text collections. We model documents as if they were generated by a two-stage stochastic pro...
Mark Steyvers, Padhraic Smyth, Michal Rosen-Zvi, T...
ECIR
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Probabilistic Models for Expert Finding
A common task in many applications is to find persons who are knowledgeable about a given topic (i.e., expert finding). In this paper, we propose and develop a general probabilis...
Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Combining statistics and arguments to compute trust
We propose a method for constructing Dempster-Shafer belief functions modeling the trust of a given agent (the evaluator) in another (the target) by combining statistical informat...
Paul-Amaury Matt, Maxime Morge, Francesca Toni
NAACL
2004
15 years 3 months ago
The (Non)Utility of Predicate-Argument Frequencies for Pronoun Interpretation
State-of-the-art pronoun interpretation systems rely predominantly on morphosyntactic contextual features. While the use of deep knowledge and inference to improve these models wo...
Andrew Kehler, Douglas E. Appelt, Lara Taylor, Ale...