The advent of Web 2.0 has created a proliferation of resource sharing sites where individual users tag resources. Retrieval performance is good when users share the same vocabulary, but deteriorates when users have diverging vocabularies. In this paper we propose a novel method of reusing search experience to transform the underlying representation of tagged resources. The aim is to favour thos...

BodyMap-Xs (http://bodymap.jp) is a database for cross-species gene expression comparison. It was created by the anatomical breakdown of 17 million animal expressed sequence tag (EST) records in DDBJ using a sorting program tailored for this purpose. In BodyMap-Xs, users are allowed to compare the expression patterns of orthologous and paralogous genes in a coherent manner. This will provide va...

The UCREL semantic analysis system (USAS) is a software tool for undertaking the automatic semantic analysis of English spoken and written data. This paper describes the software system, and the hierarchical semantic tag set containing 21 major discourse fields and 232 fine-grained semantic field tags. We discuss the manually constructed lexical resources on which the system relies, and the sev...

We propose a relational ranking model for learning to tag images in social media sharing systems. This model learns to associate a ranked list of tags to unlabeled images, by considering simultaneously content information (visual or textual) and relational information among the images. It is able to handle implicit relations like content similarities, and explicit ones like friendship or author...

The XML Fragment model offers a convenient formalism for querying XML collections "by example", that is, by formulating the query as a piece of XML that expresses the user's needs. This allows relevant results to be returned either as full documents or as XML Fragments, using a simple extension of the vector space model for ranking. In this work, we investigate extending this model to text anal...

Citrus is one of the most important and widely grown fruit crop with global production ranking firstly among all the fruit crops in the world. Sweet orange accounts for more than half of the Citrus production both in fresh fruit and processed juice. We have sequenced the draft genome of a double-haploid sweet orange (C. sinensis cv. Valencia), and constructed the Citrus sinensis annotation proj...

Social network sites allow users to publicly tag people in their posts. These tagged posts allow users to share to both the general public and a targeted audience, dynamically assembled via notifications that alert the people mentioned. We investigate people’s perceptions of this mixed sharing mode through a qualitative study with 120 participants. We found that individuals like this sharing mo...

BodyMap is a human and mouse gene expression database that is based on site-directed 3'-expressed sequence tags generated at Osaka University. To date, it contains more than 300 000 tag sequences from 64 human and 39 mouse tissues. For the recent release, the precise anatomical expression patterns for more than half of the human gene entries were generated by introduced amplified fragment lengt...

In the past few years, there has been much work on incorporating fairness requirements into algorithmic rankers, with contributions coming from data management, algorithms, information retrieval, and recommender systems communities. this survey, we give a systematic overview of work, offering broad perspective that connects formalizations approaches across sub-fields. An important contribution ...