We are experiencing a new Social Web, where people share, communicate, commiserate, and conflict with each other. As evidenced by systems like Wikipedia, twitter, and delicious.co...
In this paper we propose a novel algorithm for multi-task learning with boosted decision trees. We learn several different learning tasks with a joint model, explicitly addressing...
Olivier Chapelle, Pannagadatta K. Shivaswamy, Srin...
Different information retrieval (IR) systems often return very diverse results lists for the same query. This is problematic for users since no one IR system works best for every ...
Previous work on Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval has shown the inadequateness of semantic and syntactic structures for both document retrieval and categoriza...
It is necessary to provide a method to store Web information effectively so it can be utilised as a future knowledge resource. A commonly adopted approach is to classify the retri...