Editorial note: The CIKM 2015 Machine Learning Competition asked participants to predict the outcomes of every match in the Australian 2015 football league season. The competition received more than 90 submissions from the machine learning community. Sports bookmaker Hung Doan won the competition using just…
Best paper Assessing the impact of syntactic and semantic structures for answer passages reranking Kateryna Tymoshenko (University of Trento); Alessandro Moschitti (Qatar Computing Research Institute) In this paper, we extensively study the use of syntactic and semantic structures obtained with shallow and deeper syntactic parsers…
Making search better by slowing it down will be explored in the welcoming keynote when CIKM convenes in Melbourne, Australia this week. In “Slow Search: Improving Information Retrieval Using Human Assistance,” Principal Researcher Jaime Teevan will share some of the latest findings coming out of…
