Following the tradition of these acceptance talks, I will be giving my thoughts on where our field is going. Any discussion of the future of information retrieval (IR) research, h...
The CEDARS∗ project within UK academia seeks to develop a demonstrator system to recommend techniques for long-term storage of digital data primarily within the research library...
Previous examinations of search in textual archives have assumed that users first retrieve a ranked set of documents relevant to their query, and then visually scan through these ...
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, John Choi, Dona...
The approximate string matching problem is to find all locations at which a query of length m matches a substring of a text of length n with k-or-fewer differences. Simple and prac...
The World-Wide-Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on the Web is presented in loosely structured natural language text with no agent-readable semantics...