In this poster we introduce ProThes, a pilot meta-search engine (MSE) for a specific application domain. ProThes combines three approaches: meta-search, graphical user interface (...
A growing trend in commercial search engines is the display of specialized content such as news, products, etc. interleaved with web search results. Ideally, this content should b...
Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...
In this paper, we focus on the use of context-aware, collaborative filtering, machine-learning techniques that leverage automatically sensed and inferred contextual metadata toget...
Marc Davis, Michael Smith, John F. Canny, Nathan G...
Little work to date in sentiment analysis (classifying texts by ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ orientation) has attempted to use fine-grained semantic distinctions in features ...