Despite recent advances in natural language question answering technology, the problem of designing effective user interfaces has been largely unexplored. We conducted a user stud...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...
This paper presents a retrospective data analysis on how 75 clinicians searched for and accessed biomedical literature from an online information retrieval system to answer six cl...
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
While being quite successful in providing keyword based access to web pages, commercial search portals, such as Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and AOL, still lack the ability to answer...
Question answering systems increasingly need to deal with complex information needs that require more than simple factoid answers. The evaluation of such systems is usually carrie...