Users attempt to express their search goals through web search queries. When a search goal has multiple components or aspects, documents that represent all the aspects are likely ...
The IDEX system is a prototype of an interactive dynamic Information Extraction (IE) system. A user of the system expresses an information request for a topic description which is ...
Using Dirac Notation as a powerful tool, we investigate the three classical Information Retrieval (IR) models and some their extensions. We show that almost all such models can be...
Most modern computer systems allow the user to control the space allocated to interfaces through a window system. While much of the understanding of how people interact with windo...
This paper provides a unique quantitative analysis of the social dynamics of three chat rooms in the Microsoft VChat graphical chat system. Survey and behavioral data were used to...