Information visualization faces challenges presented by the need to represent abstract data and the relationships within the data. Previously, we presented a system for visualizin...
Ed Huai-hsin Chi, John Riedl, Elizabeth Shoop, Joh...
We describe a parser for robust and flexible interpretation of user utterances in a multi-modal system for web search in newspaper databases. Users can speak or type, and they can...
Several recent studies have found only a weak relationship between the performance of a retrieval system and the "success" achievable by human searchers. We hypothesize ...
Inaccurate or ambiguous expressions in queries lead to poor results in information retrieval. We assume that iterative user feedback can improve the quality of queries. To this end...
Maher Ben Moussa, Marco Pasch, Djoerd Hiemstra, Pa...
This paper defines and describes a fully distributed implementation of Google’s highly effective Pagerank algorithm, for “peer to peer”(P2P) systems. The implementation is ...