Too narrow, the productivity-oriented vision guiding ubiquitous computing should be replaced or enriched with humanistic aspects. We discuss the role of Maslow's hierarchy of...
Abstract--In distance teaching, direct feedback to the students is difficult to give, but crucial for their learning success. The system Asterix was developed in order to support t...
Manfred Widera, Barbara Messing, Gabriele Kern-Isb...
Our system for the Novelty Track at TREC 2004 looks beyond sentence boundaries as well as within sentences to identify novel, nonduplicative passages. It tries to identify text sp...
In this paper, we describe the system we used for the trec-2007 Question Answering Track. For factoid questions our redundancy-based approach using a modified version of aranea w...
We report on the University of Lugano's participation in the Blog track of TREC 2008. In particular we describe our system for performing opinion retrieval and blog distillat...
Shima Gerani, Mostafa Keikha, Mark James Carman, R...