In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that th...
We describe our participation in the 2009 CLEF-IP task, which was targeted at priorart search for topic patent documents. Our system retrieved patent documents based on a standard...
Text similarity spans a spectrum, with broad topical similarity near one extreme and document identity at the other. Intermediate levels of similarity – resulting from summariza...
Donald Metzler, Yaniv Bernstein, W. Bruce Croft, A...
We explore the use of the landing page content in sponsored search ad selection. Specifically, we compare the use of the ad’s intrinsic content to augmenting the ad with the wh...
Yejin Choi, Marcus Fontoura, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, ...
Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...