Support vector machines (SVMs) have been widely used in multimedia retrieval to learn a concept in order to find the best matches. In such a SVM active learning environment, the ...
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...
Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
er reports on a pragmatic query language for Racer. The abstract syntax and semantics of this query language is defined. Next, the practical relevance of this query language is sh...
This paper describes user modelling in I-Help, a system to facilitate communication amongst learners. There are two I-Help components: Private and Public Discussions. In the Privat...
Susan Bull, Jim E. Greer, Gordon I. McCalla, Lori ...