Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...
Capturing the context of a user's query from the previous queries and clicks in the same session may help understand the user's information need. A context-aware approac...
Abstract. As part of an architectural modeling project, this paper investigates the problem of understanding and manipulating images of buildings. Our primary motivation is to auto...
In this article, we present a novel discrete-time Markov chain model of book-ahead bandwidthsharing mechanisms. We use this analytical model and a simulation model to understand t...
Abstract. Automatic structuring is one means to ease access to document collections, be it for organization or for exploration. Of even greater help would be a presentation that ad...