We study the problem of integrating scattered online opinions. For this purpose, we propose to exploit structured ontology to obtain well-formed relevant aspects to a topic and us...
An implicit assumption in psychometrics and educational statistics is that the generative model for student scores on test questions is governed by the topics of those questions an...
Previous efforts on event detection from the web have focused primarily on web content and structure data ignoring the rich collection of web log data. In this paper, we propose t...
Qiankun Zhao, Tie-Yan Liu, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Wei...
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2007 Enterprise track and detail our language modeling-based approaches. For document search, our focus was on estimating a mixture mode...
This paper presents Latent Semantic Googling, a variant of Landauer’s Latent Semantic Indexing that uses the Google search engine to judge the semantic closeness of sets of word...