Figures in digital documents contain important information. Current digital libraries do not summarize and index information available within figures for document retrieval. We pr...
Xiaonan Lu, James Ze Wang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee...
This paper addresses the task of providing extended responses to questions regarding specialized topics. This task is an amalgam of information retrieval, topical summarization, a...
Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman,...
Delays on the Web are a persistent and highly publicized problem. Long delays have been shown to reduce information search, but less is known about the impact of more modest
This paper analyses reported difficulties in spatial data retrieval from Internet portals, based on results from an empirical survey. The analysis reveals the problems which cause ...