In this paper, we address the problem of database selection for XML document collections, that is, given a set of collections and a user query, how to rank the collections based o...
In this poster, we propose a novel document summarization approach named Ontology-enriched M ulti-Document Summarization(OMS) for utilizing background knowledge to improve summari...
We compared two different interfaces to the InQuery IR system with respect to their support for the TREC-9 Interactive Track Question-Answering task. One interface presented searc...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Amymarie Keller, Diane Kelly, ...
The Internet provides a wealth of useful information in a vast number of dynamic information sources, but it is difficult to determine which sources are useful for a given query. ...
Today’s web is so huge and diverse that it arguably reflects the real world. For this reason, searching the web is a promising approach to find things in the real world. This ...