Entity profiling is the task of identifying and ranking descriptions of a given entity. The task may be viewed as one where the descriptions being sought are terms that need to be ...
Maarten de Rijke, Krisztian Balog, Toine Bogers, A...
Abstract--Analysing Online Social Networks (OSN), voluntarily maintained and automatically exploitable databases of electronic personal information, promises a wealth of insight in...
Peer-to-Peer (p2p) networks are used for sharing content by millions of users. Often, meta-data used for searching is missing or wrong, making it difficult for users to find cont...
We study the problem of automatically identifying“hotspots” on the real-time web. Concretely, we propose to identify highly-dynamic ad-hoc collections of users – what we ref...
Stacking is a widely used technique for combining classifiers and improving prediction accuracy. Early research in Stacking showed that selecting the right classifiers, their par...