A growing trend in commercial search engines is the display of specialized content such as news, products, etc. interleaved with web search results. Ideally, this content should b...
We describe questions that commonly arise in early-phase user research for new technology products concerning customer needs, priorities, and market definition. We suggest that me...
Christopher N. Chapman, Edwin Love, James L. Alfor...
User feedback is widely deployed in recent multimedia research to refine retrieval performance. However, most of the existing online learning algorithms handle interactions of a s...
Cluster computing has emerged as a new paradigm for solving large-scale problems. To enhance QoS and provide performance guarantees in cluster computing environments, various real...
Xuan Lin, Ying Lu, Jitender S. Deogun, Steve Godda...
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...