This paper develops a general, formal framework for modeling term dependencies via Markov random fields. The model allows for arbitrary text features to be incorporated as eviden...
The automatic detection of novelty, or newness, as part of an information retrieval system would greatly improve a searcher’s experience by presenting “documents” in order of...
The Text Analysis Conference (TAC) is a series of Natural Language Processing evaluation workshops organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The Knowledge B...
Heather Simpson, Stephanie Strassel, Robert Parker...
This paper presents Carnegie Mellon University’s experiments on the mixed named-page and homepage finding task of the TREC 12 Web Track. Our results were strong; we achieved the...
Web pages are often recognized by others through contexts. These contexts determine how linked pages influence and interact with each other. When differentiating such interactions,...