Filtering relevant documents with respect to entities is an essential task in the context of knowledge base construction and maintenance. It entails processing a time-ordered stream of documents that might be relevant to an entity in order to select only those that contain vital information. State-of-the-art approaches to document filtering for popular entities are entity-dependent: they rely on and are also trained on the specifics of differentiating features for each specific entity. Moreover, these approaches tend to use so-called extrinsic information such as Wikipedia page views and related entities which is typically only available only for popular head entities. Entity-dependent approaches based on such signals are therefore ill-suited as filtering methods for long-tail entities. Continue reading “Document Filtering for Long-tail Entities” »
Using Temporal Bursts for Query Modeling
In this paper, we present an approach to query modeling that leverages the temporal distribution of documents in an initially retrieved set of documents. Continue reading “Using Temporal Bursts for Query Modeling” »