In this paper, we propose a novel approach to expand queries by exploring both location information and topic information of the queries. Users at different locations tend to have...
Shu Huang, Qiankun Zhao, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee G...
A common task in many text mining applications is to generate a multi-faceted overview of a topic in a text collection. Such an overview not only directly serves as an informative...
Xu Ling, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai, Bruce R. Sc...
With the overwhelming volume of online news available today, there is an increasing need for automatic techniques to analyze and present news to the user in a meaningful and effi...
Ramesh Nallapati, Ao Feng, Fuchun Peng, James Alla...
In Internet marketing, Web audience analysis is essential to understanding the visitors’ needs. However, the existing analysis tools fail to deliver summarized and conceptual me...
General-purpose search engines such as AltaVista and Lycos are notorious for returning irrelevant results in response to user queries. Consequently, thousands of specialized, topi...