Recently, web mining that tries to find useful knowledge from the vast amount of web pages has attracted a lot of research interests. Besides, it is becoming an essential task to...
Various methods have been proposed for automatic synonym acquisition, as synonyms are one of the most fundamental lexical knowledge. Whereas many methods are based on contextual c...
Generating query-answering plans for information gathering agents requires to translate a user query, formulated in terms of a set of virtual relations, to a query that uses relat...
—A state-dependent relay channel is studied in which strictly causal channel state information is available at the relay and no state information is available at the source and d...
We consider an interactive information retrieval task in which the user is interested in finding several to many relevant documents with minimal effort. Given an initial documen...