Abstract. We propose a generic framework and methods for simplification of large networks. The methods can be used to improve the understandability of a given network, to complemen...
Although PageRank has been designed to estimate the popularity of Web pages, it is a general algorithm that can be applied to the analysis of other graphs other than one of hypert...
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Our first objective in participating in this domain-specific evaluation campaign is to propose and evaluate various indexing and search strategies for the German, English and Russ...
Analyzing the author and topic relations in email corpus is an important issue in both social network analysis and text mining. The AuthorTopic model is a statistical model that id...