The TREC Blog track aims to explore information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere, by building reusable test collections for blog-related search tasks. Since, its advent in TRE...
Craig Macdonald, Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Iadh Ounis,...
Aggregate ranking tasks are those where documents are not the final ranking outcome, but instead an intermediary component. For instance, in expert search, a ranking of candidate ...
Text categorisation relies heavily on feature selection. Both the possible reduction in dimensionality as well as improvements in classification performance are highly desirable. ...
Abstract. The TextMap-TMT cross-language question answering system at USC-ISI was designed to answer Spanish questions from English documents. The system is fully automatic, includ...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W. Oard, Daniel Marcu...
A distributed memory parallel version of the group average Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering algorithm is proposed to enable scaling the document clustering problem to large c...
Rebecca Cathey, Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel,...