Exploiting unannotated natural language data is hard largely because unsupervised parameter estimation is hard. We describe deterministic annealing (Rose et al., 1990) as an appea...
Large video collections present a unique set of challenges to the search system designer. Text transcripts do not always provide an accurate index to the visual content, and the pe...
John Adcock, Matthew L. Cooper, Andreas Girgensohn...
Mobile and wearable computers present input/output problems due to limited screen space and interaction techniques. When mobile, users typically focus their visual attention on na...
Stephen A. Brewster, Joanna Lumsden, Marek Bell, M...
The challenge we address is to reason about projected resource usage within a hierarchical task execution framework in order to improve agent effectiveness. Specifically, we seek ...
Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval refers to systems that support multiple users searching together at the same time in order to satisfy a shared information need. To ...