This paper concerns the task of removing redundant information from a given knowledge base, and restructuring it in the form of a tree, so as to admit efficient problem solving ro...
Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...
Discretization algorithms have played an important role in data mining and knowledge discovery. They not only produce a concise summarization of continuous attributes to help the ...
Recent work on modeling the web graph has dwelt on capturing the degree distributions observed on the web. Pointing out that this represents a heavy reliance on "local" p...
This paper investigates the role of ontologies as a central part of an architecture to repurpose existing material from the web. A prototype system called ArtEquAKT is presented, ...
Mark J. Weal, Harith Alani, Sanghee Kim, Paul H. L...