Heuristic search effectiveness depends directly upon the quality of heuristic evaluations of states in the search space. We show why ordinal correlation is relevant to heuristic se...
This paper presents the use of Support Vector Machines (SVM) to detect relevant information to be included in a queryfocused summary. Several SVMs are trained using information fr...
We introduce a novel approach to expert finding based on multi-step relevance propagation from documents to related candidates. Relevance propagation is modeled with an absorbing ...
Throughout many of the different types of Web searches people perform, the primary tasks are to first craft a query that effectively captures their information needs, and then eva...
Previous examinations of search in textual archives have assumed that users first retrieve a ranked set of documents relevant to their query, and then visually scan through these ...
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, John Choi, Dona...