Abstract. We present the results of UMBC’s participation in the Web and Novelty tracks. We explored various heuristics-based link analysis approaches to the Topic Distillation ta...
Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Ch...
In this paper we study in-network query processing in disconnected mobile environments, where both ad-hoc communication and infrastructure communication are available. Depending o...
In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
Text classification systems on biomedical literature aim to select relevant articles to a specific issue from large corpora. Most systems with an acceptable accuracy are based o...
The organization of the knowledge on the web is increasingly becoming a social task performed by online communities whose members share a common interest in classifying different t...