Although documents have hundreds of thousands of unique words, only a small number of words are significantly useful for intelligent services. For this reason, feature extraction ...
It is difficult to present new, complex ideas in ways that are informative and interesting in situations where a vast amount of information has to be delivered and understood quic...
Field usability research involves observing people in their own environments—for example, workplaces, homes, and schools—to learn their normal or natural behavior. Through fie...
We propose an online topic model for sequentially analyzing the time evolution of topics in document collections. Topics naturally evolve with multiple timescales. For example, so...
This paper details the participation of the XLDB group from the University of Lisbon at the GeoCLEF task of CLEF 2006. We tested text mining methods that make use of an ontology t...
Bruno Martins, Nuno Cardoso, Marcirio Silveira Cha...