Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
Progress in networking research depends crucially on applying novel analysis tools to real-world traces of network activity. This often conflicts with privacy and security requir...
Automated annotation of digital pictures has been a highly challenging problem for computer scientists since the invention of computers. The capability of annotating pictures by c...
The paper is concerned with applying learning to rank to document retrieval. Ranking SVM is a typical method of learning to rank. We point out that there are two factors one must ...
Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Yalou Hua...
Memory-based methods for collaborative filtering predict new ratings by averaging (weighted) ratings between, respectively, pairs of similar users or items. In practice, a large ...
Jun Wang, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. Reinders