An important way of making interfaces usable by nonexpert users is to enable the use of natural language input, as in natural language query interfaces to databases, or MUDs and M...
The development of programming skills is a motivating issue in computer science. Programming languages have been increasingly used to map end-users needs and mental models. The nu...
The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
This paper examines the problem of image retrieval from large, heterogeneous image databases. We present a technique that fulfills several needs identified by surveying recent res...
Summarization of query results is an important problem for many OLAP applications. The Minimum Description Length principle has been applied in various studies to provide summarie...