As online businesses keep growing and Web services become pervasive, there is an increasing demand for micropayment protocols that facilitate microcommerce, namely selling content...
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of many information retrieval tasks. Documents often contain tables in order to communicate d...
Models of language learning play a central role in a wide range of applications: from psycholinguistic theories of how people acquire new word knowledge, to information systems th...
We present a hybrid method to turn off-the-shelf information retrieval (IR) systems into future event predictors. Given a query, a time series model is trained on the publication...
Decision-support requires the gathering and presentation of information, but is subject to many kinds of resource restrictions (e.g. cost, length, time). Individual users differ n...