There are information needs involving costly decisions that cannot be efficiently satisfied through conventional web search engines. Alternately, community centric search can prov...
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Jun'ichi Tatemu...
Early TREC-style Question Answering Systems were characterized by the following features: (a) the answer of the question was known to be included in a given local corpus, (b) the ...
Syllabi are important documents created by instructors for students. Students use syllabi to find information and to prepare for class. Instructors often need to find similar syl...
Xiaoyan Yu, Manas Tungare, Weiguo Fan, Manuel A. P...
With the proliferation of image data, the need to search and retrieve images efficiently and accurately from a large image database or a collection of image databases has drastica...
Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui ...
Structured retrieval aims at exploiting the structural information of documents when searching for documents. Structured retrieval makes use of both content and structure of docum...
Saravadee Sae Tan, Tang Enya Kong, Gian Chand Sodh...