Spreading the word: information for quality

Spreading the word, broadening perspectives

Globalisation is ambivalent. On the one hand, it brings prosperity, comfort and convenience in the form of economic growth, technological advancement, more open and democratic governance, and so forth. On the other hand, there are vast amounts of casualties from its progress, which only benefits some groups or countries. Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) in Indonesia have established themselv...

Word embeddings and discourse information for Quality Estimation

In this paper we present the results of the University of Sheffield (SHEF) submissions for the WMT16 shared task on document-level Quality Estimation (Task 3). Our submission explore discourse and document-aware information and word embeddings as features, with Support Vector Regression and Gaussian Process used to train the Quality Estimation models. The use of word embeddings (combined with b...

Spreading the word about seasonal influenza.

Seeds Buffering for Information Spreading Processes

Seeding strategies for influence maximization in social networks have been studied for more than a decade. They have mainly relied on the activation of all resources (seeds) simultaneously in the beginning; yet, it has been shown that sequential seeding strategies are commonly better. This research focuses on studying sequential seeding with buffering, which is an extension to basic sequential ...

Scaling Spreading Activation for Information Retrieval