This paper describes a simple clustering approach to person name disambiguation of retrieved documents. The methods are based on standard IR concepts and do not require any task-s...
The evolution of the WWW has opened the way to putting information at the fingertips of the whole world with very little effort. As the amount of information available grows, ther...
We use Wikipedia articles to semantically inform the generation of query models. To this end, we apply supervised machine learning to automatically link queries to Wikipedia artic...
Accurate prediction of demographic attributes from social media and other informal online content is valuable for marketing, personalization, and legal investigation. This paper d...
John D. Burger, John C. Henderson, George Kim, Gui...
We present methods employed in COORDINATE, a prototype service that supports collaboration and communication by learning predictive models that provide forecasts of users' pr...
Joe Tullio, James Begole, Eric Horvitz, Elizabeth ...