This paper presents the CMU submission to the 2008 TREC blog distillation track. Similar to last year's experiments, we evaluate different retrieval models and apply a query ...
Jaime Arguello, Jonathan L. Elsas, Changkuk Yoo, J...
Information Foraging (IF) Theory addresses user strategies and technology for seeking, gathering, and using on-line information. We present IF-based models and evaluations of two ...
We describe a mechanism for the generation of lexical paraphrases of queries posed to an Internet resource. These paraphrases are generated using WordNet and part-of-speech inform...
We present a novel approach for classifying documents that combines different pieces of evidence (e.g., textual features of documents, links, and citations) transparently, through...
Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr., Marco Cristo, Ma...
Set expansion refers to expanding a partial set of "seed" objects into a more complete set. One system that does set expansion is SEAL (Set Expander for Any Language), w...