Almost every application of spreading activation is accompanied by its own set of often heuristic restrictions on the dynamics. We show that in constraint-free scenarios spreading...
Recent advances in click model have positioned it as an attractive method for representing user preferences in web search and online advertising. Yet, most of the existing works f...
Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Tom Minka, Chenguan...
Intelligence analysts grapple with many challenges, chief among them is the need for software support in storytelling, i.e., automatically ‘connecting the dots’ between dispar...
M. Shahriar Hossain, Patrick Butler, Arnold P. Boe...
It is a traditional belief that in order to scale-up to more effective retrieval and access methods modern Information Retrieval has to consider more the text content. The modalit...
Roberto Basili, Alessandro Moschitti, Maria Teresa...
This paper introduces the notion of temporally constrained ranked retrieval, which, given a query and a time constraint, produces the best possible ranked list within the specifi...