A wealth of information is available only in web pages, patents, publications etc. Extracting information from such sources is challenging, both due to the typically complex langu...
Relevance Feedback has proven very effective for improving retrieval accuracy. A difficult yet important problem in all relevance feedback methods is how to optimally balance the...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
Independent component analysis (ICA) is a popular approach for blind source separation (BSS). In this study, we develop a new mutual information measure for BSS and unsupervised l...
Blogs, discussion forums and social networking sites are an excellent source for people’s opinions on a wide range of topics. We examine the application of voting theory to “I...
Alfredo Alba, Varun Bhagwan, Julia Grace, Daniel G...