Maximum entropy (Maxent) is useful in natural language processing and many other areas. Iterative scaling (IS) methods are one of the most popular approaches to solve Maxent. With...
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,...
We present HyperGraphDB, a novel graph database based on generalized hypergraphs where hyperedges can contain other hyperedges. This generalization automatically reifies every ent...
We are interested in developing tools to support the activities of lawyers in corporate litigation. In current applications, information such as characters that have played a signi...
Taxonomies are an important resource for a variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Despite this, the current stateof-the-art methods in taxonomy learning have d...