Our KDD 2014 paper “Personalized search result diversification via structure learning” by Shangsong Liang, Zhaochun Ren and Maarten de Rijke is available online now. This paper is concerned with the problem of personalized diversification of search results, with the goal of enhancing the performance of both plain diversification and plain personalization algorithms. In previous work, the problem…
Month: June 2014
Coling 2014 paper on temporal evidence classification online
Our Coling 2014 paper “Prior-informed distant supervision for temporal evidence classification” by Ridho Reinanda and Maarten de Rijke is available online now. Temporal evidence classification, i.e., finding associations between temporal expressions and relations expressed in text, is an important part of temporal relation extraction. To capture the variations found in this setting, we employ a distant supervision…
ECAI 2014 paper on detecting the reputation polarity of microblog posts online
Our ECAI paper “Detecting the reputation polarity of microblog posts” by Cristina Garbacea, Manos Tsagkias and Maarten de Rijke is available online now. We address the task of detecting the reputation polarity of social media updates, that is, deciding whether the content of an update has positive or negative implications for the reputation of a given entity….