In many networks, vertices have hidden attributes that are correlated with the network's topology. For instance, in social networks, people are more likely to be friends if t...
Abstract. When faced with the task of building accurate classifiers, active learning is often a beneficial tool for minimizing the requisite costs of human annotation. Traditional ...
Modeling query concepts through term dependencies has been shown to have a significant positive effect on retrieval performance, especially for tasks such as web search, where rel...
Translingual information retrieval (TLIR) consists of providing a query in one language and searching document collections in one or more di erent languages. This paper introduces...
Yiming Yang, Jaime G. Carbonell, Ralf D. Brown, Ro...
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...