Many systems use past behavior, preferences and environmental factors to attempt to predict user navigation on the Internet. However we believe that many of these models have shor...
The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...
Archived biomedical literature and sequence data are growing rapidly. The Open Archives Initiative's Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) [1] provides a convenient way ...
Question answering (QA) systems aim at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents. To be considered as reliable by users, a QA system must provide element...
As the amount of textual information available through the World Wide Web grows, there is a growing need for high-precision IR systems that enable a user to nd useful information ...
Mandar Mitra, Chris Buckley, Amit Singhal, Claire ...