The authors have some experience in building virtual worlds for education purposes, in archaeology and for language learning. However, many mainstream world-building applications ...
In practice, a pure top-down and refinement-based development process is not applicable. A more iterative and incremental approach is usually applied with respect to changing req...
Finding opinionated blog posts is still an open problem in information retrieval, as exemplified by the recent TREC blog tracks. Most of the current solutions involve the use of e...
We consider the task of assigning experts from a portfolio of specialists in order to solve a set of tasks. We apply a Bayesian model which combines collaborative filtering with a...
David H. Stern, Horst Samulowitz, Ralf Herbrich, T...
Information retrieval evaluation has typically been performed over several dozen queries, each judged to near-completeness. There has been a great deal of recent work on evaluatio...
Ben Carterette, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas...