Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...
Abstract— The effectiveness of service provisioning in largescale networks is highly dependent on the number and location of service facilities deployed at various hosts. The cla...
Opinion retrieval is a document retrieval process, which requires documents to be retrieved and ranked according to their opinions about a query topic. A relevant document must sa...
Pervasive games provide a new type of game combining new technologies with the real environment of the players. While this already poses new challenges to the game developer, requ...
Wolfgang Broll, Jan Ohlenburg, Irma Lindt, Iris He...
Blog post opinion retrieval aims at finding blog posts that are relevant and opinionated about a user’s query. In this paper we propose a simple probabilistic model for assigni...