Leveraging information from relevance assessments has been proposed as an effective means for improving retrieval. We introduce a novel language modeling method which uses inform...
On-line news agents provide commenting facilities for readers to express their views with regard to news stories. The number of user supplied comments on a news article may be ind...
Despite the widespread use of BM25, there have been few studies examining its effectiveness on a document description over single and multiple field combinations. We determine t...
Eye tracking experiments have shown that titles of Web search results play a crucial role in guiding a user’s search process. We present a machine-learned algorithm that trains ...
Tapas Kanungo, Nadia Ghamrawi, Ki Yuen Kim, Lawren...
Opinion mining has become recently a major research topic. A wide range of techniques have been proposed to enable opinion-oriented information seeking systems. However, little is...