Niche Search Engines offer an efficient alternative to traditional search engines when the results returned by general-purpose search engines do not provide a sufficient degree of...
Yves Petinot, Pradeep B. Teregowda, Hui Han, C. Le...
We report the results of a year-long experiment in the use of robots to teach computer science. Our data set compares results from over 800 students on identical tests from both r...
Field usability research involves observing people in their own environments—for example, workplaces, homes, and schools—to learn their normal or natural behavior. Through fie...
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute user...
This paper presents an algorithm to generate possible variants for biomedical terms. The algorithm gives each variant its generation probability representing its plausibility, whi...