—This paper describes a study of predicting machine availabilities and user presence in a pool of desktop computers. The study is based on historical traces collected from 32 mac...
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Web search quality can vary widely across languages, even for the same information need. We propose to exploit this variation in quality by learning a ranking function on bilingua...
In this paper, we present a semantic search technique considering the type of desired Web resources and the semantic relationships between the resources and the query keywords in ...
Abstract. Life science data sources represent a complex link-driven federation of publicly available Web accessible sources. A fundamental need for scientists today is the ability ...