Given an author-conference graph, how do we answer proximity queries (e.g., what are the most related conferences for John Smith?); how can we tailor the search result if the user...
This work addresses the use of computational linguistic analysis techniques for conceptual graphs learning from unstructured texts. A technique including both content mining and i...
Many applications in information retrieval, natural language processing, data mining, and related fields require a ranking of instances with respect to a specified criteria as op...
PageRank is defined as the stationary state of a Markov chain depending on a damping factor that spreads uniformly part of the rank. The choice of is eminently empirical, and in...
This paper initiates research on the foundations of ranking systems, a fundamental ingredient of basic e-commerce and Internet Technologies. In order to understand the essence and...