Search engines are an essential tool for modern life. We use them to discover new information on diverse topics and to locate a wide range of resources. The search process in all ...
This paper presents a novel opinion mining research problem, which is called Contrastive Opinion Modeling (COM). Given any query topic and a set of text collections from multiple ...
While database management systems offer a comprehensive solution to data storage, they require deep knowledge of the schema, as well as the data manipulation language, in order to...
We consider the problem of identifying the consensus ranking for the results of a query, given preferences among those results from a set of individual users. Once consensus ranki...
Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Anton M...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...