Several types of queries are widely used on the World Wide Web and the expected retrieval method can vary depending on the query type. We propose a method for classifying queries ...
Context influences the search process, but to date research has not definitively identified which aspects of context are the most influential for information retrieval, and thus a...
Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms, Charles L. A. Clark...
Active musicians generally rely on extensive personal paper-based music information retrieval systems containing scores, parts, compositions, and arrangements of published and han...
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
The development of the RDF[2] standard highlights the fact that a great deal of useful information is in the form of semistructured data--objects connected by relations fitting no...