Abstract. In this paper, we describe the design and development of personal information assistant (PIA), a system aiming to meet individual needs of the searchers. The system'...
The difficulty of maintaining effective testbed partnerships, among users of computer-based tools and builders of those tools, has been an obstacle to the success of science colla...
Abstract Even the best information retrieval model cannot always identify the most useful answers to a user query. This is in particular the case with web search systems, where it ...
A shape feature by itself is not sufficient for effective 3D model retrieval. Long-lasting semantics shared by a community as well as a short-lived intention of a user determines ...
Proximity of query terms in a document is an important criterion in IR. However, no investigation has been made to determine the most useful term sequences for which proximity sho...
Jing Bai, Yi Chang, Hang Cui, Zhaohui Zheng, Gordo...