Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
From pre-schools to high schools, at home and in museums, the educational community has embraced the use of computers as a teaching tool. Yet many institutions will simply install...
Lori L. Scarlatos, Amy Bruckman, Allison Druin, Mi...
Subject-specific search facilities on health sites are usually built using manual inclusion and exclusion rules. These can be expensive to maintain and often provide incomplete c...
Thanh Tin Tang, David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Kath...
Personalization is one of the important research issues in the areas of information retrieval and Web search. Providing personalized services that are tailored toward the specific...
Ka Cheung Sia, Shenghuo Zhu, Yun Chi, Koji Hino, B...
A key problem in facilitating a successful online course is the highly time -consuming nature of the administrative and pedagogical tasks involved. It is also difficult to achieve...