In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
This paper describes our participation in the 2008 TREC Blog track. Our system consists of 3 components: data preprocessing, topic retrieval, and opinion finding. In the topic ret...
This paper reports on work done for the Genomics Track at TREC 2004 by ConverSpeech LLC in conjunction with scientists at the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD), the model organi...
Colleen E. Crangle, Alex Zbyslaw, J. Michael Cherr...
This paper describes a method, using Genetic Programming, to automatically determine term weighting schemes for the vector space model. Based on a set of queries and their human de...
The search task and the system both affect the demand on cognitive resources during information search. In some situations, the demands may become too high for a person. This arti...