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VLDB
1994
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
1994
ACM
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Question answering systems increasingly need to deal with complex information needs that require more than simple factoid answers. The evaluation of such systems is usually carrie...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
2006
ACL Anthology
Most question answering (QA) and information retrieval (IR) systems are insensitive to different users' needs and preferences, and also to the existence of multiple, complex ...
UM
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2001
Springer
Abstract: An emerging practice in e-commerce systems is to conduct interviews with buyers in order to identify their needs. The goal of such an interview is to determine sets of pr...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results t...